The rapporteur of the Senate Inquiry Parliamentary Commission (CPI) investigating the manipulation of games and sports betting, Romário (PL-RJ), requested the indictment, for crimes of manipulation of results, by entrepreneurs William Pereira Rogatto and Thiago Chambó Andrade and the uncle of player Lucas Paquetá, Bruno Tolentino. A former Flamengo athlete working in the Brazilian team, Paquetá currently plays in English football.
The scheduled session for this Tuesday (11), where the report would be read, was canceled. A new date for reading will still be scheduled. Romário states, in his conclusions, that the manipulation of results involves the most varied actors of the sport. The commission has investigated alleged game fraud to obtain bets onlinethe so -called Bets.
“High performance athletes with large contracts have become the target of investigations related to the simulation of game situations to receive ‘yellow cards’ for their own and third parties. Club leaders ‘rented’ teams to serve criminals to manipulate results. Former athletes they enlisted young people to participate in criminal schemes. A confessed criminal boasted the amount of teams it lowered to get financial gains, ”emphasized the rapporteur.
According to the in progress investigations, the player Lucas Paquetá Cavaria faults to provoke yellow cards and thus win bets made on platforms onlinebenefiting gamblers. Accused of trying to manipulate the betting market for England Football Associationthe midfielder denied any irregularity.
“I deny the full accusations and I will fight with all my strength to clean my name,” the player wrote on a social network when the accusations were revealed in May 2024. Paquetá’s uncle Bruno Tolentino was summoned to testify at CPI of bets in October 2024, but remained silent and did not answer the questions of parliamentarians.
Maximum penalty
One of the investigated, former player and businessman Bruno Lopez de Moura, confirmed that he participated in a game handling scheme. He was not indicted by the CPI due to a non -criminal agreement made with the Public Prosecution Service (MP).
“Bruno reported that the highest amount he received was approximately $ 720,000, after an operation involving the manipulation of results,” says Romário’s report. On the other hand, Bruno denied being the leadership of the criminal organization, as pointed out for the investigation of the Federal Police (PF) Maximum Penalty Operation.
The arrangements involved expulsion or intentionally provoked cards. “Regarding yellow cards. The payment was R $ 150 thousand for each player (Series B of 2022), from which the intermediado commission was discounted; Betting involving expulsion or penalty shootout was expected to return between one and two million reais, ”adds the CPI document.
Simple bets
Rapporteur Romário argues that betting houses are increasingly offering the so -called simple bets (or Single Bets), modality that facilitates the manipulation of results because it depends on a single event. Another modality is multiple bets, related to various simultaneous events, more difficult to predict.
“Because such manipulations do not affect the end result of a game, players can decide more easily without much remorse,” the document says.
For Senator Romário, the offer of betting for specific events (number of goals, number of cards, victory/defeat in the first half, etc.) reduces the opportunity cost for the player, making corruption more attractive. “Only with regulation would it be possible to control these types of bets,” he added.
Romário recommends limiting the types of bets available by eliminating the “possibility of betting on isolated events that depend on an athlete, such as receiving yellow and red cards and penalty shootout”.
If approved by the committee set, the text will be sent to the Federal Public Prosecution Service, the judiciary, the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and the Executive Bodies, such as the Ministries of Finance and Sport, so that the entities involved with the sport And with the games online adopt measures against the practice of results manipulation.
Entrepreneurs
In a statement to the CPI in October 2024 for video conferencing, businessman William Pereira Rogatto confessed that he manipulates games and said he has already acquired about $ 300 million frauding out results in bets online. “I’m being a defendant I confess here as I told you and I am here openly confessing everything I do. I can’t stop because the system gives me this breach. Will I stop something that is working? ”Said the businessman at the time.
Rogatto, known as the “king of relegation”, supposedly provoking the relegation of clubs, was arrested in November 2024 by Interpol in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
Appointed as one of the main funders of a Game Fraud scheme by the Goiás Public Prosecution Service and Civil Police. The report also requested the indictment of businessman Thiago Chambó Andrade, who missed the two calls made by the CPI.
“Several steps were carried out at addresses linked to him by the Federal Senate police, after judicial authorization of coercive driving, but was not found. Because of this, the CPI requested in court its pre -trial detention, ”says the text.
THE Brazil agency Try to contact the defendants’ defense and is open to include their position in the text.
