CPI that investigated match-fixing in Brazilian football ends without final report

Even with the request for an extension granted by the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira, the CPI created to investigate the manipulation of results in football finished its work without voting on the final report and the Commission “ended up in pizza.” This popular Brazilian expression means to end up in nothing, to end up with no significant consequences, with people going out to eat pizza instead of biting the bullet.

The vote, which would have taken place on the 20th, was canceled after numerous arguments between Commission deputies. Rescheduled for the following day, it was canceled again, being scheduled for the last day of the CPI, this Tuesday (26).

After the request for views, made by Wellington Roberto, deputies Luciano Vieira, José Rocha and Marcelo Álvaro Antônio endorsed the request, defining the condition of “collective view” for the report.

Regardless of the number of members entitled to view the report, a single request would result in the CPI being closed.
 

After a tiring CPI with few contributions to the fight against result manipulation, with hearings from dozens of people, deputy Felipe Carreras presented his 244-page report last week.

As expected, nothing involving sports betting houses was mentioned in the document. However, the rapporteur proposed that four projects involving combating the practice be discussed, including the classification of penalties and identification of perpetrators, as well as the prohibition of betting on individual actions or conduct.

Felipe Carreras suggested that the Chamber of Deputies discuss the following projects:

• Bill to determine that, in cases of manipulation of results, the sports justice system must ensure that the penalties applied are proportional and consistent with the principle of equality.
   
• Bill to classify the conduct of a manager, director or coach who fails to report to the competent authority the commission of a crime against the uncertainty of the sporting result of which he or she became aware whilst carrying out his or her duties or as a result of them.
   
• Bill to typify the conduct of carrying out, intermediating or contributing to the carrying out of a fixed-odd bet in an institution to which a grant has not been granted by the competent body.
   
• Bill to prohibit placing bets on individual actions or conduct in sports matches and on the repetition of overpayments relating to prize values for bettors who participate in a scheme to manipulate the results of sports matches.

At the end of the meeting this Tuesday (26), Felipe Carreras once again stated that “we did not identify any signs on the part of the bookmakers of involvement with manipulation of results. On the contrary, they were harmed.”

Source: GMB