Loterj has filed a new appeal with the Supreme Federal Court to overturn the decision of Minister André Mendonça, who suspended the national operation of bets licensed by the agency. The request was submitted this Tuesday (7). Mendonça's preliminary injunction affects 25 companies authorized in Rio de Janeiro.
In the new appeal, Loterj emphasizes that the contested notice followed the legal standards in force at the time it was published and later rectified.
Loterj argues that the article that limited the operation of bets to the territory emerged with the advent of Law 14.790/2023 and was not created or inserted by Provisional Measure 1.182/2023. Thus, in the view of the agency, it would be "chronologically and logically impossible" to claim that the accreditation notice by Loterj was against the law, since the rectification was made 6 months before the law came into effect. For Loterj, there was no violation of a legal norm because it did not exist.
In the first decision where he denied the embargoes, André Mendonça pointed out that the legislation is "express" in the sense that the commercialization of lotteries and bets by the States must be limited to people located or domiciled within their territorial limits. Mendonça also argues that the publication of the rectification of the accreditation notice occurred one day after the publication of Provisional Measure 1.182.
Source: GMB
