Betting fraud scheme is the most serious ever seen – 05/11/2023 – PVC

It is sheer luck that no referee’s name appeared in the betting scandal. Whoever has the FIFA shield on their chest earns R$6,600 per match. If you referee eight games in the month, you will have R$ 53 thousand. Eduardo Bauermann’s salary is four times higher and the Santos defender was tempted to pocket R$50,000 to get a yellow card.

If a warning is worth all that to the bearer, how much can showing the card be worth?

There have been lectures to instruct and prevent a new character, like Edílson Pereira de Carvalho, from tarnishing Brazilian football again.

Or rather, that it stains more.

Betting sites were legalized at the end of the Michel Temer government. Bolsonaro had two years to regulate the sector and his finance ministry gigantically ate the ball.

Paulo Guedes was very uncomfortable with the rate for approving the Societies Anônimas do Futebol (SAF) project, because he thought it was low. Meanwhile, he downplayed the up to R$10 billion in taxes expected when the sites were regulated.

Regulating the sector is urgent, emergency.

The Whistle Mafia, in the case of Edílson Pereira de Carvalho, happened thanks to illegal websites. Based on the regulation, a working group will be set up with members of the Ministries of Finance and Sports that will determine rules for Bets to inform and withdraw games with unusual volume of bets.

There are those who say that it is necessary to prohibit playing with yellow cards, red cards, corner kicks, goal kicks. It does not give. Mafiosi reached an incredible level of sophistication. It is possible to post on Liechtenstein sites how many expulsions there will be in a Botafogo x Corinthians match, in Brazil.

Fighting crime will require detailed study, heavy investigation and severe punishment. It doesn’t matter if Eduardo Bauermann has had an impeccable posture in his career so far. If his participation in the mafia is confirmed, he must be banned from the sport. Or new cases will never be inhibited.

In the last ten months, this is the third warning in this column that betting sites need regulation and commit to participating in the fight against fraud. Clubs should be the most interested in this. On the contrary, they are only concerned with how much money they will receive.

Since Fernando Haddad’s Ministry of Finance began drafting the provisional measure, which will be signed by President Lula, CBF and Série A leaders have visited Brasília. None of them discussed ways to prevent the mobsters from taking action. They limited themselves to asking that the share of taxes destined to their brands be greater than the 1.63% foreseen in the MP.

The short-sightedness of club presidents prevents them from seeing that earning 1.63% from credible football will be much better than raising 5% from an industry in disrepute, without rules or supervision.

The contrast is having the Brasileiro with the prospect of reaching the attendance record for all championships in this country in 120 years, but threatened by the most refined system of fraud ever seen.

The situation is now more complex than the Sports Lottery Mafia, revealed by the magazine Placar in 1982, than the Tottonero, scandal in Italy in 1980, or than the Whistle Mafia, by Edílson Pereira de Carvalho, discovered by André Rizek, in Veja magazine, in 2005.

The current scheme is more complicated because it allows all types of bets and because it is globalized. From a cell phone, it is possible to be in Rio or São Paulo and rig a match in Russia. As well as, from Moscow, participating in the collusion in Brazil.

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