São Paulo court rejects seizure of Blaze operator’s assets in R$ 145.5 million claim filed by lawyer Willer Tomaz

A São Paulo judge has refused to freeze R$ 145.5 million in assets belonging to Foggo Entertainment, the operator of the Blaze betting platform, in a case brought by lawyer Willer Tomaz. For PSPs and high-risk operators, the interesting bit is not the celebrity amount but the court’s line: no concrete sign of asset dissipation, and no freeze based on speculation about future regulatory changes.

1. On Tuesday (29/9), the 44th Civil Court of the Central Forum of the São Paulo Court of Justice (TJ-SP) denied Tomaz’s request to block R$ 145.5 million in assets and financial resources of Foggo Entertainment. The request came hours after President Lula signed a provisional measure banning bets operations in Brazil.
2. According to reporting by Folha de S.Paulo and O Globo, which reviewed the case file, Tomaz deposited R$ 325.3 million on Blaze between January 2025 and July 2026, across 2,145 transactions. In the same period, he withdrew R$ 180.3 million, leaving a negative balance of R$ 145 million. The platform’s own documents attached to the case say he placed 53,310 bets totaling R$ 6.6 billion over a little more than 18 months.
3. Judge Guilherme Madeira Dezem rejected the seizure request as based on “mere conjectures” about the sector, with allegations described as “generic and abstract.” He wrote that the passage of a provisional measure is a future and uncertain event that depends on Congress, and that the judiciary cannot freeze a private company’s assets on the basis of assumptions about legislative changes.
4. Dezem also said there was “not the slightest material indication” that Foggo Entertainment Ltda. was dissipating assets, diverting revenue, hiding property, fraudulently selling assets, or irregularly winding down operations. He added that a “subjective fear” of not collecting a future debt is not the same as the concrete risk of harm required by civil procedure law.
5. The judge pointed to the company’s compliance with an August injunction that blocked Tomaz’s account on the platform and prohibited advertising to him as evidence of good faith. Separately, Tomaz’s main lawsuit filed on 1 August seeks a refund of the losses and R$ 500,000 in moral damages, arguing that Brazil’s 2023 betting law bars people diagnosed with ludopathy from betting and renders such wagers void.

Tomaz says he asked Blaze to block his account and received neither the closure he wanted nor an end to bonus offers and advertising. His filing also says self-exclusion links produced an error, and he has produced a psychiatric report with the diagnosis in court.