AGU files sealed petition in Brazil’s ADI 7721 at 22:10, leaving the STF document unavailable

Brazil’s Attorney General, Jorge Messias, filed a petition on Monday night (5) in ADI 7721, but the Supreme Federal Court’s system still does not show the text. For high-risk operators, the missing piece matters because it could indicate whether the government is defending the fixed-odds betting ban in MP 1.394/2026 or looking for a negotiated exit.

1. According to the STF docket, the filing was logged as “Petição – Advogado-Geral da União – Petição: 125934 – Data: 05/10/2026, às 22:10:25, via Web Service MNI 2.2.2.” The content itself is not accessible, and the system shows the notice “Ausência de peça eletrônica ou visualização restrita.”
2. That notice usually appears in two cases: either the document is restricted from public access, or it has not yet been uploaded to the system. As of publication, it was not possible to tell which one applies here.
3. The petition arrived within the 72-hour deadline set by Justice Luiz Fux on Friday (2), when he asked the AGU to take a position on Provisional Measure 1.394/2026, which banned fixed-odds betting and online games in Brazil. Fux is handling six cases on the issue: ADIs 7721, 7723 and 7749, which challenge Law 14.790/2023, and ADIs 8024, 8027 and 8028, which were assigned to him by prevention and challenge the MP.
4. The Union’s position on the law is already on record. On Friday (2) at 16:22, Messias signed a submission in ADI 7749, filed by the Prosecutor General’s Office, asking the STF to rule the betting framework unconstitutional. That is the same framework the AGU defended at the November 2024 public hearing.
5. The missing part is the AGU’s filing on the MP itself, which entered the system a few hours before the platform shutdown that began on Tuesday (6). The market is reading the silence in two very different ways: either the AGU is backing the ban, or it is leaving room for mediation and a negotiated solution. The source does not confirm either reading.

The speculation picked up after a note by columnist Thomas Traumann in O Globo. He wrote that Fux is expected to rule on requests from CBF and football clubs to suspend the MP, and that he could order the government to replace it with a bill, which would push the fight back to Congress without the immediate effects of the measure. In practice, those immediate effects are already visible: sites have been taken offline, sponsorship contracts have been terminated, and payments have been interrupted.