Senator’s report Alessandro Vieira (MDB-SE) from invoice (PL) Anti It was introduced this Wednesday (3) and confirmed the creation of new taxes on online betting companies, the so-called BetsTo finance the fight against organized crime. It is expected that the text will be voted on today in the Constitution and Justice Committee (CCJ) and proceed with the general analysis.
The text provides for the establishment of an intervention contribution in the economic sphere (sir) About Bets. The resources, which Vieira estimated at R$30 billion, will enter the National Public Security Fund and will have a specific address that will ensure that resources are allocated to combating organized crime.
“For this reason, we are working to create a new part of the National Public Security Fund that will focus exclusively on combating organized crime, by strengthening the integrated operations of the security forces, intelligence infrastructure and the prison system, without reducing the already anticipated resources of the Fund,” an excerpt of the opinion said.
“We have chosen to create CIDE-Bets which, according to an estimate prepared based on data presented by the Central Bank at a public hearing, could allocate up to R$30 billion annually to fight organized crime.”
The rate and calculation basis for CIDE bets will be determined by the executive authority after the approval of the new law.
The opinion of Anti-PL Creates a specific crime of Criminal factionis defined as an organization with regional or interstate operations through violence, coercion, or intimidation. In practice, the text tightens the criminal treatment applied to criminal organizations, factions and militias, and stipulates a basic sentence of between 15 and 30 years, which can be doubled for leaders.
Vieira’s text also equates private militias with criminal factions. “Equating the criminal type of formation in a private militia with a criminal faction. The private militia will also be considered a criminal organization for all legal purposes,” the report says.
Under the text, intimate visits by members of criminal organizations will be prohibited.
The destination of the seized goods and money
Vieira also redirected assets and funds seized from criminal organizations, an issue that sparked controversy after the chamber agreed to prioritize funds managed by states, withdrawing resources from the federal police, according to experts.
In his opinion, Vieira requires the distribution of resources to the judicial sphere where the criminal case is processed.
“Instruments used to commit crimes by criminal organizations must be declared lost to the Public Security Fund of the relevant state, the Federal District or the National Public Security Fund, depending on the court in which the criminal case is processed, even if they do not pose a danger to the safety of people, morals or public order, and do not pose a serious risk of being used to commit new crimes,” the opinion said.