Brazil republishes betting decree articles on account blocking and asset forfeiture under Law 14.790

Brazil’s Diário Oficial da União has republished three articles of Decree No. 13.033, dated 19 June 2026, after correcting errors in the original version. For operators, PSPs, and banks in the betting stack, the point is simple: the federal process for identifying illegal fixed-odds betting operators, blocking related accounts, and pursuing forfeiture has now been restated in clearer form.

1. The republication on Tuesday (23) covered Articles 4, 15, and 17 of the decree, all tied to the federal mechanism used against irregular operators of fixed-odds betting. The decree was signed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and corrects the version first published in the Extra Edition A of the Diário Oficial on 19 June, Section 1.
2. The decree regulates Article 21-A of Law No. 14.790 of 29 December 2023 and sets out the operating steps for blocking accounts held by illegal betting operators, as well as sending the information needed to assess and declare forfeiture of assets in favor of the Union. In practice, this is the paper trail that turns a suspected illegal operation into a banking and litigation problem.
3. Article 4 now spells out the minimum content of the irregularity finding report that the Secretaria de Prêmios e Apostas must issue whenever it identifies an illegal operator. The report must include the operator’s full identification, including CPF or CNPJ and other available registration data; a description of the facts and evidence; the websites, apps, domains, or other channels used for the illegal activity; the financial institutions holding accounts subject to blocking; the payment transactions identified in favor of the irregular operator, with the institutions involved; the legal basis for the blocking; and the deadline for the suspect to present a defense.
4. The same article says the report may be supported by information obtained from the Banco Central do Brasil, the Secretaria Especial da Receita Federal, the Ministério Público, and police authorities, as long as the data are not protected by confidentiality. That matters for compliance teams, because the decree is explicitly built around inter-agency information sharing.
5. Articles 15 and 17 cover the next procedural steps. Under Article 15, a decision declaring the forfeiture of assets can be appealed to the Minister of State for Justice and Public Security within ten days from notification of the decision. Once the administrative route is exhausted, Article 17 requires the Ministry of Justice and Public Security to send the case file to the Advocacia-Geral da União so it can file the judicial forfeiture action. Assets declared forfeited go to the Union.

The republication was signed by Lula, by the Attorney General, Dario Carnevalli Durigan, and by the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Wellington César Lima e Silva. For high-risk payment providers, the useful signal is that Brazil is not just talking about illegal betting in the abstract; it is formalizing the mechanics for tracing payment flows, identifying counterparties, and pushing blocked funds into a forfeiture process.