MAR 14 DE MAYO DE 2024 - 04:38hs.
To finance security fund

Governors support bill that regulates gambling in Brazil

Governors from at least 15 Brazilian states asked the presidents of the Chamber, Rodrigo Maia (DEM-RJ), and the Senate, Eunício Oliveira (PMDB-CE), to speed up the bill regulating gambling on Internet. Among the governors was Luiz Fernando Pezão, from Rio de Janeiro. According to the governors, the taxes collected would be used as revenue for a public security fund.

Last week, representatives of 23 states had already defended, during a meeting in Rio Branco (AC), the creation of a National Security System to combat drug trafficking. "In this case, we work to systematize the vote on the creation of the single security system in Brazil, and on the other side, a fund that has the conditions of revenue, from taxation gaming over the Internet," said Piauí governor Wellington Dias.

The bill regulating gambling on the Internet is on the Senate Economic Affairs Committee (CAE) and was presented by Ciro Nogueira (PP-PI). For the project, it will be up to the Central Bank to establish the control rules prohibiting companies from authorizing debit and credit payments for internet gaming, as well as any transfer of amounts between bettors and suppliers.

This week, the Senate and the House have adopted as a strategy the voting of proposals related to public security. In a meeting of leaders, Maia has already defined six projects for plenary vote.

During the meeting with Rodrigo Maia, the governors said that everything that is proposed to improve the country's public security will be "very important."

"I have rarely seen Congress so involved," Pezão said as he left the governors' meeting with the mayor. "It's no good for us to think that public security today is only a problem for state governments, it's a problem for municipal governments, state governments and especially the federal government," he added.

"This topic is extremely important for the states to ensure cash flow by the end of this year and early next year," said Rodrigo Rollemberg, governor of Brazil. "Approval of this project -and others- would allow states to negotiate their active debts," said Rodrigo Rollemberg, Federal District governor.

Source: GMB / Globo