Brazilian prosecutors investigate Spribe over Aviator supply to illegal betting operators

The 1st Consumer Rights Prosecutor’s Office of the Federal District and Territories has opened a civil inquiry into Spribe, also identified as SPRIBE OÜ, over the supply of its electronic game Aviator to clandestine betting operators in Brazil. For PSPs and high-risk payment partners, the interesting part is not the game itself but the regulatory chain: certified content, licensed operators, and the platforms that keep everyone else in business.

1. The inquiry was formalized under Portaria No. 1.028, signed on 8 June, and registered under number 08192.121842/2026-43. The portaria was published in the Diário Oficial da União on Monday (15/6).
2. According to the MP-DF, the investigation is looking at Spribe’s alleged supply of Aviator to operators without authorization from the Secretariat of Prizes and Betting of the Ministry of Finance. The same game is also said to be available to operators authorized under Brazilian law, using the “.bet.br” domain.
3. The office says the irregular operators do not collect taxes and do not have effective policies for anti-money laundering, responsible gaming, and bet integrity. That is the kind of gap regulators tend to care about when a product is distributed through both licensed and unlicensed channels.
4. The civil inquiry is based on Federal Laws 7.347/1985 and 8.078/1990, as well as Complementary Law 75/1993. It focuses on four lines: the supply of Aviator to unauthorized operators and its administrative, civil, and criminal implications; possible misleading advertising and abusive practices; consumer harm from the absence of regulatory protection; and identifying everyone responsible in the supply and illegal exploitation chain.
5. Brazil’s fixed-odds betting regime requires federal authorization for operators and technical certification for games. The source cites Law 14.790/2023 and SPA/MF Ordinances 300/2024, 722/2024, and 1.207/2024. It also notes that SPA/MF Ordinance 1.231/2024 prohibits financial inducements tied to targets, known as rollover, and imposes transparency and integrity duties.

The MP-DF says keeping technical certification for a game that is demonstrably offered in the clandestine market undermines the purpose of Article 3 of Ordinance MF/SPA 300/2024. In practice, that is a licensing and distribution problem as much as a content problem: once the same product moves through both licensed and unlicensed operators, the compliance question stops being theoretical very quickly.