Brazil Senate Panel Clears Anticrime Bill With Betting Levy and Harsher Penalties

Overview

• After approval by the Senate’s Constitutional and Justice Committee, the Projeto Antifacção heads to a same-day floor vote and, if passed, returns to the Chamber for review.
• Cide-Bets imposes a 15% charge on bettors’ transfers to platforms, with at least 60% of the revenue executed by states via security funds and earmarked for fighting organized crime and expanding prisons.
• The bill redesigns the National Public Security Fund board to add representatives from state and federal prosecutors and the Judiciary, and it explicitly includes GAECOs as beneficiaries.
• A new crime of criminal faction carries 15 to 30 years in prison—doubled for leaders—with militia groups equated to factions and the conduct classed as heinous without access to clemency.
• The text adds tougher tools and offenses, including penalties for aiding factions, recruiting minors and organized receptação, aggravators for attacks on infrastructure or harm to Armed Forces personnel, expanded data access for investigators, and a regularization path with strict enforcement for irregular betting operators.