Brazil’s Justice Ministry opens preliminary probe into Spribe OÜ over Aviator distribution

Brazil’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security, through Senacon (the National Consumer Secretariat), has opened a preliminary investigation into Estonian developer Spribe OÜ, the company behind the Aviator game. For high-risk operators and their payment partners, the point is straightforward: Brazilian authorities are testing whether a technology provider can be held responsible for how its product is distributed by unlicensed operators.

1. The probe, opened on Monday (14/7), examines possible violations of consumer protection rules in Brazil’s betting market. Senacon wants to know whether Spribe OÜ has effective controls to stop Aviator from being offered by operators that are not authorized to operate in the country.
2. In its notice to Spribe OÜ, Senacon requested four sets of information: the monitoring and enforcement mechanisms used to prevent the game from being distributed by irregular operators; the steps taken to remove the content from unauthorized platforms; the company’s internal governance and compliance policies; and the identification of the intermediaries authorized to distribute Aviator in the Brazilian market.
3. The company has five calendar days to respond. That is a short fuse by design, and it tells you where the regulator’s attention is: not on the game itself, but on the control layer around distribution.
4. The Ministry’s procedure was triggered by a filing from prosecutor Paulo Roberto Binicheski of the 1st Consumer Defense Prosecutor’s Office of the Federal District Public Prosecutor’s Office. He pointed to signs that the game was being offered on betting platforms without authorization to operate in Brazil.
5. CNN Brasil reported in June 2026 that Aviator remained accessible on irregular platforms, including after the company said it had taken removal actions. That same reporting also led to a civil action by the Federal District Public Prosecutor’s Office.

For PSPs, acquirers, and banks touching betting or gaming traffic, this is the practical takeaway: Brazilian regulators are not limiting scrutiny to the operator. They are asking whether upstream suppliers know who is distributing their product, what they did about unauthorized placement, and whether their compliance framework can prove it.