Flávio Dino orders the PF to investigate fraud in football matches

The Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, said this Wednesday (10th) that he determined that the Federal Police (PF) should initiate an investigation to investigate evidence of manipulation of results in sports competitions. “Faced with evidence of manipulation of results in sports competitions, with interstate and even international repercussions, I am determining today that an Inquiry be instituted at the Federal Police for legally applicable investigations”, published the Minister of Justice in his profile on a social network. Faced with evidence of manipulation of results in sports competitions, with interstate and even international repercussions, I am determining today that an Inquiry be instituted at the Federal Police for the legally applicable investigations. — Flávio Dino 🇧🇷 (@FlavioDino) May 10, 2023 The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) also commented on the subject this Wednesday, informing, through a note sent to Agência Brasil, that the president of the entity, Ednaldo Rodrigues, “sent an official letter to the Presidency of the Republic and the Ministry of Justice, requesting that the Federal Police be involved in the case, with the aim of centralizing all information regarding the cases under investigation”. In addition, the highest entity of Brazilian football ruled out any possibility of interrupting the 2023 edition of the Brazilian Championship and stated that it works “together with FIFA [Federação Internacional de Futebol] and other international spheres for a standard model of investigation”. Denunciation by the Public Ministry The announcement by the Minister of Justice was made one day after the Public Ministry of Goiás (MP-GO) denounced 16 people to Justice for fraud to manipulate results of 13 football matches (8 of the 2022 Brazilian Series A Championship , 1 of Série B of 2022 and 4 of state championships of 2023) to favor sports betting. According to a note from the MP-GO press office, the complaint, signed by prosecutors from the Special Action Group to Combat Organized Crime (Gaeco) and the Prosecutor’s Office to Combat Organized Crime, is the result of Operation Maximum Penalty II. “This is a specialized action aimed at enticing and co-opting professional athletes to, through financial consideration, ensure the practice of certain events in official football matches and, with this, guarantee success in high sports bets made by the criminal group in houses. branch, such as www.bet365.com and www.betano.com. The group also makes use of numerous third-party accounts to increase its profits, hide real beneficiaries and records the actions of intermediaries to identify, provide and make contacts with players willing to practice corruption”, declared the prosecutors. Among those denounced is defender Eduardo Bauermann, removed by Santos last Tuesday (9) in a preventive manner, “in view of the new developments disclosed in Operation Penalty Maximum II”. In addition to the Peixe athlete, the following players were denounced: Gabriel Tota (Ypiranga-RS), Victor Ramos (Chapecoense), Igor Cariús (Sport), Paulo Miranda (Náutico), Fernando Neto (São Bernardo) and Matheus Gomes (who played in Sergipe). Nine more people (bettors and members of the criminal organization) were also named in the complaint, which “discloses 23 criminal facts that occurred during the matches, in which players committed to committing fouls to receive cards and to commit penalties. The criminal organization aimed to bet on the results and events induced and, in this way, obtain high gains”.

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