Senator Jorge Kajuru has requested Brazil’s federal police to compare John Textor, the proprietor of football club Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas, after Textor made match-fixing allegations in opposition to the São Paulo and Palmeiras football groups.
Kajuru – a senator for the Brazilian issue of Goiás – confirmed the narrative all through a senate plenary assembly the day prior to this (2 April). He said he had outlined his concerns to the federal police in the develop of a letter, which he encouraged others in the session to signal.
Throughout the assembly Kajuru outlined Textor’s allegations. Textor had alleged that 5 players from the São Paulo football club had got bribes from Palmeiras with regard to the Brazilian Championship Sequence A sport, where Palmeiras beat São Paulo 5-0. He also claimed to possess evidence to toughen this.
Kajuru added that one month prior, Textor said he had a recording of a referee that had been gathering bribes.
Kajuru said that he had sent the claims to Andrei Rodrigues, director of the federal police, and had asked the federal police to summon Textor within 24 hours. The senator also requested that Textor raise all readily accessible evidence and recordings to reduction up his claims.
“Because, for me, if he doesn’t raise the evidence and the recordings, he would should always be arrested right here the next day – cell, handcuffs,” Kajuru explained all during the assembly. “Because right here’s hugely irresponsible, because it’s no longer perfect the relaxation, other folks, it’s Brazilian football, it’s this country’s most tantalizing ardour.”
He said that Textor “ought to be applauded” and “respected” if the allegations are comely. “Nonetheless, in the occasion that they are lies, he ought to be banned from Brazil, arrested and never enter again in the country, because seek the irresponsibility of this citizen.”
Making a bet integrity measures “no longer ample”
Additionally, Kajuru took the opportunity to emphasise the should always put in force the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPI) on Sports Making a bet – an initiative launched in December – as quickly as imaginable, inquiring for that it open up “subsequent week”.
The CPI on Sports Making a bet became as soon as established to compare accusations of match-fixing in Brazilian sport, keeping players, managers and betting operators. It may well per chance consist of 11 sitting senators and seven substitutes.
The neighborhood is being headed by Senator Romário de Souza Faria and is decided to final for 180 days.
The determination to narrative Textor became as soon as met positively by the plenary. Senator Eduardo Girão gave his tubby toughen to Kajuru, adding that extra desired to be accomplished to forestall match-fixing and betting integrity.
“What’s occurring with betting is no longer ample,” Girão declared. “We had been very careful in the Commission; you licensed amendments and we tried to carry out one thing that can provide protection to followers from a tragedy, from debt and from manipulations of the essence of football.”
Girão further pressured the gravity of Textor’s claims by suggesting that this couldn’t wait to be brought in entrance of the CPI for Sports Making a bet.
“That is this form of serious matter that it cannot even look forward to the CPI,” Girão persisted. “So, congratulations to your assertion, and count on my toughen in this file to the federal police.”
Brazil igaming and sports actions betting law perfect settling in
Textor’s allegations of match-fixing come after Brazil’s president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, legalised sports actions betting and igaming in the country in December by signing Bill 3,626.
The invoice mandates that operators should always pay 12% tax on corrupt gaming revenue (GGR), vastly decrease than the beforehand-decided 18%.
It became as soon as licensed by Brazil’s chamber of deputies on 21 December, with the re-addition of igaming after it became as soon as beforehand removed. Hopeful licensees desired to publish their expression of ardour to Brazil’s ministry of finance by 26 November final year.
The vote to approve the invoice became as soon as many cases delayed – noteworthy to the ire of the substitute.
