The Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, signs Ordinance MF nº 874, published in the Official Gazette of the Union this Wednesday (29), which reallocates executive commissioned functions and positions within the Ministry's structure.
With the measure, the office of the Secretariat of Prizes and Betting, Régis Dudena, now has three advisors, two of them assistants and a technical assistant, who were previously allocated within the body's structure. A third technical assistant who worked in the General Coordination of Responsible Gaming Monitoring to join the Secretariat's Subsecretariat for Monitoring and Inspection.
The SPA was created at the beginning of this year by decree of the federal government to organize the betting sector in Brazil. Its structure is made up of three sub-secretariats, Authorization, Monitoring and Inspection and Sanctioning Action.
The Secretariat is responsible for the entire process involving the operation of sports betting, from requesting a license to monitoring and applying penalties to operators who do not comply with all the rules that have been defined in ordinances that are being published for regulation of the sector.
Since April 22, the Secretariat of Prizes and Betting of the Ministry of Finance has been headed by Régis Dudena, lawyer and specialist in public and regulatory law. His appointment is attributed to the executive secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Dario Durigan, with whom he worked at Palácio do Planalto during Dilma Rousseff's government.
Source: GMB
