Brazil spotlights new anti-match-fixing tools during national technical meeting in Brasília

The Brazilian federal government used the II Encontro Técnico Nacional sobre Combate à Manipulação de Resultados Esportivos, held in Brasília from April 28 to 30, to showcase a new package of systems, intelligence tools and institutional mechanisms designed to strengthen the country’s response to sports-betting-related match manipulation.

At the center of that presentation was the argument that Brazil has moved from fragmented action to a more coordinated state model. Official government statements say the meeting highlighted the creation of the Política Nacional de Prevenção e Enfrentamento à Manipulação de Resultados Esportivos, formalised in April 2026, and the construction of what authorities now describe as a National Integrity Ecosystem in Sports Betting, combining regulation, prevention, monitoring, inspection and repression.

The most concrete new technical tool placed in the spotlight was the Sistema de Análise de Apostas Suspeitas, developed by Brazil’s Federal Police. According to the Ministry of Sport and the Ministry of Justice, the system is intended to organise strategic betting data to support analytical cross-checks and criminal investigations, giving federal authorities a more structured way to detect suspicious betting patterns linked to possible result manipulation.

The government also highlighted other recently created or updated instruments that widen the enforcement architecture around the betting market. Those include the second edition of the National Manual to Combat Sports Result Manipulation, the first distance-learning course on prevention and repression of manipulation developed by the National Police Academy, the continuous production of intelligence reports within the judicial police sphere, and the creation of integrated flows for receiving, analysing and forwarding suspicious-case information.

What gives these measures extra weight is the interministerial design behind them. The official framework ties together the Ministry of Sport, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, and the Federal Police, while also bringing in regulators, prosecutors, sports entities, integrity bodies and licensed betting operators. In practice, Brasília is trying to build a permanent information-sharing model rather than rely on isolated investigations after scandals emerge.

The timing is not accidental. As the regulated betting market expands under Brazil’s post-Law 14.790/2023 framework, the government is making it clear that market growth must be matched by stronger integrity controls. The Brasília meeting therefore served not just as a conference, but as a demonstration that the federal response to match manipulation is becoming more data-driven, more institutionalised and more closely linked to the regulated betting environment itself.