The Sao Paulo-based broadcaster showed a series of clandestine gambling houses being closed and the existence of activity outside the law. In addition to the ban on gambling in Brazil, the show aired the police raids carried out in the last two weeks, including the one that found football player Gabigol in an illegal casino in the south zone of the city of Sao Paulo.
GMB’s CEO Carlos Cardama said that the only way to end illegal casinos is to regulate the activity, "which will generate taxes, jobs and many investments by large companies." Cardama added that the regulation of gambling in Brazil has the capacity to generate 700 thousand direct jobs.
Luiz Felipe Maia, a lawyer at the FYMSA office, said that there are anti-fraud mechanisms and practices designed to combat addiction to gambling. "A person with an alcohol addiction problem arrives at a bar and asks for a cachaça and is served by the waiter, unlike a person who has a gambling addiction that has previously declared his condition and will be prevented from betting.”
Although the report of Record TV was more focused on the issue of the closure of clandestine casinos and bingos and the presence of many people confined in closed spaces at a time of worsening of the COVID-19 pandemic, which should cause people to remain isolated social, the participation of Carlos Cardama and Maia in the interview was important to shed light on the activity of the gaming sector in Brazil.
Source: GMB
