The bookmaker, which holds the naming rights for the Brasileirão and was the first to file a license request with the Secretariat of Prizes and Betting (SPA), understands that the suspension of the administrative process determined by the Court would also suspend the blocking of its website, which is not the case.
Loterj acted in two different ways to prevent bookmakers not licensed by it from being banned from operating in Rio de Janeiro.
The first was through State Decree 48.806/2023, which imposes sanctions and involves warnings, fines of up to 20% on the GGR, prohibition of engaging in commercial activity in Rio de Janeiro and prohibition of participating in bidding processes whose objective is the accreditation, concession or permission of public services in the state, among others.
The second was through an action that culminated in the Court's order for Anatel to block all websites listed by the Rio de Janeiro government agency as unlicensed in Rio de Janeiro.
Betano partially won the case by managing to suspend the administrative process, but did not win the right to resume operations in Rio de Janeiro, in a case that is still pending in the Federal Court.
Source: GMB
