VIE 19 DE ABRIL DE 2024 - 00:51hs.
OPINION - ROBERTO CARVALHO BRASIL FERNANDES, ABLE’S LAWYER

The folklore of money laundering with gaming exploitation

In this column of opinion, Roberto Brasil Fernandes, lawyer of the Brazilian Association of State Lotteries, explains the reasons why Congressional laws to open gaming activity in Brazil will not allow or encourage money laundering that opponents of legalization assure that will occur.

The folklore of money laundering with gaming exploitation

The legal games, especially the Lotteries described in the New Law that is processed in the National Congress (PL 442/1991 and PLS 185/2014) do not lend themselves to money laundering.

From the point of view of supervision and technology, considering the non-use of paper money in legal gaming operations (article 12 § 7), and the obligation to adopt a system called SGC (article 12§6), federal regulation may require the use of structured networks for data traffic over the internet, hosting in government-controlled (Tier 3 and Tier 4) data centers, adopting Hasch cryptography, sealing the aggregation of betting data collected in the control / controller body data repository , prior to each draw, which will prevent fraud or prize directing.

The IRS can, and should, be the guardian of this Hasch, which is nothing more than an unchanging seal in the preservation of data before each draw, a procedure that effectively prevents money laundering.

This procedure is simple and extremely efficient, already applied in some lotteries in other countries and already developed by Brazilian technology companies, which translates into an efficient method known in the world, for protection of the fiscal origin of the revenue and also of the control of the ludopathy.

In addition to the high tax burden provided for in the New Law being processed in Congress, defined payout, cost of the operation, obligation to identify the winner and the origin of each penny that enters the cashier, in addition to the risk for investments, Legal Gambling will not lend itself to laundering money.

 

ROBERTO CARVALHO BRASIL FERNANDES

Roberto Carvalho Brasil Fernandes, Brazilian, postgraduate in Law, lawyer of ABLE - Brazilian Association of State Lotteries, accredited in the Chamber of Deputies to represent the interest of the state Lotteries (RICD / 3,008,963), signatory of the defense of the Lotteries in the Supreme Federal Court in ADI, ADPF and other constitutional actions.
Guest Conference on Gaming and Lottery, by Clarion Events (BGC and ICE / 2016), by STF in the Great Judgments program, in the II Encuentro Latinoamericano Del Juego / Peru, in the seminar Challenges and Prospects for Regulation of Games / ALMG-Minas Gerais / 2015 and others.
Authority invited by the Special Commission of the Regulatory Framework of Gaming in Brazil to expose the perspective of the state Lotteries and interest in the bills that are processed in the Chamber of Deputies; Author of several articles on the market of Gaming in Brazil. Specialist in international law and internalization of capital and customs.
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Escrito por Roberto Carvalho Brasil Fernandes