Brazil Senate bill would require bettors’ name and CPF on every lottery ticket: physical and digital

PL 787/2026 proposes mandatory identification at the moment the bet is registered, with prizes paid only to the identified ticket-holder (or a legal successor), as lawmakers frame the change as an anti-fraud and anti–money laundering safeguard.

A new proposal filed in Brazil’s Senate — PL 787/2026, authored by Senator Bruno Bonetti (PL-RJ) — would force lottery operators to identify the bettor when the wager is placed and print the bettor’s name and CPF on all lottery tickets issued in physical or virtual form.

The draft amends Article 14 of Law 13,756/2018 by adding two new clauses. Under the proposed §5-A, the operator must record the identification and “affix” the name and CPF of the person who holds the eventual right to the prize on every ticket. Under §5-B, the prize would be paid directly to the bettor identified on the winning ticket or to their successor, using a procedure to be set by Brazil’s Ministry of Finance.

In the bill’s justification, Bonetti argues the change is meant to prevent third parties from improperly cashing prizes and to reduce the risk of lotteries being used to launder money through a clandestine market for “winning tickets.” He also says the proposal does not create a new betting database and would have a low implementation cost, since digital lotteries already rely on user registration and physical tickets would require only printing the required details.

If the proposal advances, it would tighten the “cash-out” layer of Brazil’s lottery ecosystem — shifting the ticket from a near-anonymous bearer instrument toward a registered entitlement, which could raise compliance expectations for retailers and intermediaries handling prize claims.