According to Painel S.A. from the Folha portal, one of the discussions led by the minister is that the approved law does not specifically define the authorization model. For Jonathan de Jesus, the form foreseen in public administration presupposes the holding of an auction, like infrastructure concession projects.
According to the rules in force, the Finance carries out a process of controlling the qualified companies and, once approved, they only have to pay a fixed fee of R$ 30 million (US$5m) to the government and comply with the governance requirements imposed.
Painel S.A. obtained the order sent to the ministry this Tuesday (10). It contains a series of information requested by the minister, who is the rapporteur of the audit process on the revenues generated by the government from betting houses.
The first question concerns the bidding model.
Jonathan de Jesus is the rapporteur of the process at the TCU, which aims to understand and monitor the costs involved in public health, the impact on families' purchasing power, and the actions proposed by the federal government to prevent, for example, money laundering, theft of bettors' data, and the involvement of minors.
The minister wants to know everything from the legal grounds for pre-authorizing 'Bets' to the criteria for authorization; the attributions, responsibilities, and legal basis for the actions of each government agency involved in the authorization (the Secretariat of Prizes and Betting of the Ministry of Finance, the Special Secretariat of the Federal Revenue of Brazil, the Central Bank, and others), and how these various agencies work together to mitigate the risk of granting authorization to companies linked to organized crime.
He also wants to know how many houses are authorized, how many have already paid the concessions (fee for the right to operate in the country), how many and which were denied and the reasons.
Source: Painel S.A.
