A court ruling compels SPA-MF to provisionally authorize the company Zeroum.bet.
The company Zeroumbet Plataforma Digital Ltda. obtained a preliminary injunction from the 14th Federal Civil Court of the Judicial Section of São Paulo, ordering the Secretariat of Prizes and Bets of the Ministry of Finance to include the Zeroumbet brand in the list of operators authorized to operate during the adaptation period.
The company operates the following fixed-odds betting and online gaming brands: Zeroum (zeroum.bet), Energia (energia.bet) and Sportvip (sportvip.bet).
The decision was handed down last Friday (11) by federal judge Israel Almeida da Silva, of the 4th Federal Civil Court, in a writ of mandamus filed by lawyers Caio Nogueira Domingues da Fonseca, Camilla Rose Ewerton Ferro Ramos, Carlos Antonio Vieira Fernandes Filho and Fernando Henrique Gajaca Newman Evans against the Secretary of Prizes to Bets of the Ministry of Finance.
In the decision, the judge cites ID No. 358812865, pages 218/225, which partially granted "(...) the request for provisional injunction, to determine that the Union proceed with the inclusion of the Zeroumbet brand in the list of operators authorized to operate during the adaptation period, provided for in article 24 of SPA/MF Ordinance No. 827/2024, provided that the only obstacle is the police investigation in which the managing partner appears as an investigated party."
In the proceedings, Zeroumbet Plataforma Digital Ltda. informs that the company was sold to José Daniel Carvalho Saturnino, the current managing partner, and the judge sets a deadline of fifteen days to "regularize its procedural representation, attaching to the records a power of attorney granted by the new managing partner of the company, Mr. José Daniel Carvalho Saturnino, accompanied by an updated copy of the articles of association; and to inform the IDs of the confidential documents attached to the records."
The magistrate ordered that SPA-MF and the Federal Union be notified, "by means of urgent warrants and on an emergency basis, to comply with the decision id no. 358812865, pages 218/225, within forty-eight hours," the federal judge ruled.
On the afternoon of this Monday (14), the Prizes and Betting Secretariat updated the list of companies with the brands and domains that can operate fixed-odds betting nationwide, authorized through decisions of the Federal Court. Currently, the Prizes and Betting Secretariat of the Ministry of Finance – SPA/MF has already authorized the operation of nine companies and 21 brands/domains due to court decisions.
Zeroumbet Plataforma Digital LTDA was previously linked to influencer and lawyer Deolane Bezerra, but a search of the company's CNPJ (Brazilian tax ID) shows that the partners and administrators are Jose Daniel Carvalho Saturnino (managing partner), Ana Beatriz Scipiao Barros (administrator), Jair Machado Junior (administrator), Leila Luana Pardim Tavares Lima (administrator), and Marcella Ferraz de Oliveira (administrator).
Check out the full text of the decision in the writ of mandamus filed by Zeroumbet.
