In Furtado's mistaken view, betting houses “continue without adequate regulation” and have created “a fertile environment for committing crimes, forming gangs, manipulating games, and creating fortunes from illicit gains, while at the same time discrediting and demoralizing legal activities, such as football”.
“Bets have become a sector with a major impact on economic activity, now worrying the government beyond the issues involving the public in social actions and income policies,” Furtado wrote in the representation to the TCU.
“The reduction in the level of activity in several sectors of the economy, with the corresponding negative effects on tax collection, has been attributed by government agents to the exponential growth of gambling bets,” he adds.
In the representation, the deputy attorney general of the MP at the TCU argues that, based on news reports indicating that resources from social programs are being allocated to gambling, “it is up to the State to react to the illegality on several fronts: administrative, legislative and judicial, which involve agencies such as the Federal Police, the General Comptroller's Office of the Union and instances of the Judiciary.”
“I understand that I must, through this Representation, urge the TCU to anticipate the difficulties that the Public Administration will face in coordinating efforts of unusual dimensions, which, as experience shows, are always resorted to, a posteriori, to justify irregularities discovered in external control actions,” says Furtado.
Source: Veja
