By The Weekly Edge desk ·
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called for new rules governing betting company oversight, iGaming Brazil reported. His government assessed that existing oversight had failed to contain the sector's negative effects on society.
Lula’s call puts new betting oversight rules on the government’s agenda following its assessment that existing oversight failed.
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