SIGA LATIN AMERICA participated in the II National Technical Meeting on Combating the Manipulation of Sports Results, held from 28 to 30 April in Brasília, reaffirming its commitment to strengthening integrity in sport and to institutional cooperation in addressing illicit activities in the sector.
The event, coordinated by the Ministry of Sport, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, within the framework of the Interministerial Working Group established by Ordinance No. 1/2025, brought together public authorities, experts, and representatives from the sports and betting ecosystem. Its objective was to reinforce the integrated action of the Brazilian State in preventing and combating the manipulation of sports results.
SIGA LATIN AMERICA’s participation took place at the invitation of the organising authorities, in the context of the technical cooperation agreements signed with the Ministry of Sport and the Secretariat of Prizes and Betting, consolidating the organisation’s role as a strategic partner of the Federal Government in matters of sports integrity.
André Megale, Director of Integrity and Governance at SIGA LATIN AMERICA, took part in Panel 3 – “New Threats, New Responses: Technology, Betting and Monitoring”, alongside Tiago Horta, Head of Integrity for Latin America at Genius Sports, under the moderation of Giovanni Rocco Neto, National Secretary for Sports Betting and Economic Development of Sport.
During the panel, participants discussed the main contemporary challenges related to match-fixing, with a particular focus on the role of technology, betting monitoring, and stakeholder cooperation in mitigating risks. In his intervention, André Megale presented SIGA LATIN AMERICA’s work in strengthening integrity in sport, highlighting:
• SIGA’s Universal Standards, as an international benchmark for best practices in governance, financial integrity, and sports betting integrity;
• the Comparative Law Study on the criminal classification of match-fixing developed by the organisation;
• the role of the FAIR Platform – Betting, Integrity and Regulation Forum – as a space for cooperation between licensed operators and public authorities;
• and the importance of maintaining a regulated sports betting market as an essential condition for ensuring effective mechanisms for monitoring, prevention, and combating match-fixing.
The Meeting also included the presentation of the second edition of the Manual for Combating the Manipulation of Sports Results, as well as training sessions aimed at representatives of the Civil Police and Federal Police from all states, reinforcing the technical and capacity-building nature of the initiative.
SIGA LATIN AMERICA’s participation in this high-level forum further reinforces its position as a reference in promoting structured, evidence-based solutions to protect integrity in sport, as well as its ongoing commitment to strengthening institutional cooperation in Brazil and across Latin America.
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