CPI meetings that investigate match-fixing in Brazilian football were canceled and the collegiate will not meet this week. This information was provided by federal deputy Júlio Arcoverde (PP-PI), who chairs the commission.
According to him, due to the decision of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Deputies to give priority to discussions and voting on economic issues, they led the group to postpone the meetings until next week, since in this week the Chamber will make a concentrated effort to deal with the agenda economic policy, such as tax reform and the fiscal framework, which will run until Friday, July 7th.
“Given the importance of the economic agenda for the stability of the country, the decision of the Board of Directors of the Chamber is commendable and has our support. Therefore, the CPI will resume its work with full commitment after the concentrated effort of the Plenary of the House,” defended Arcoverde.
On the afternoon of this Tuesday (4th), the collegiate would meet to discuss and approve requests for invitations and summons of personalities to deal with the practice of the crime of match-fixing.
For this Wednesday (5th), it was scheduled the hearing of Tom Mace, Senior Vice President of Global Operations and Integrity Services at Sportradar, Tom Mace. The executive is a specialist in detecting match-fixing and would explain how Sportradar and its integrity division prepare its analyzes and forward the topic to leagues and sports entities in all the countries where it operates.
Júlio Arcoverde's decision complies with Act 75/22023 of the Board of the Chamber of Deputies, published on Sunday (2nd), which determines that meetings of any kind are not held this week by the permanent and temporary committees (such as the CPI-FUTE), to that the House stick to the concentrated effort to discuss the economic agenda.
Source: GMB
