{"id":347424,"date":"2025-08-27T23:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/brazilian-influencer-raquel-brito-probed-over-illegal-gambling-promotions\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T23:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:44:20","slug":"brazilian-influencer-raquel-brito-probed-over-illegal-gambling-promotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/brazilian-influencer-raquel-brito-probed-over-illegal-gambling-promotions\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian influencer Raquel Brito probed over illegal gambling promotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brazilian-influencer-Raquel-Brito-probed-over-illegal-gambling-promotions-300x200.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Raquel Brito, a social media influencer in Brazil, has been questioned over alleged illegal gambling promotions.\u00a0Raquel Brito wears a one shoulder purple top with straight black hair. She&#039;s standing against an off-white background.\" style=\"width:100%;height:66.67%;max-width:1200px;margin-bottom: 15px\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raquel Brito, a social media influencer in Brazil, has been questioned over alleged illegal gambling promotions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The sister of Big Brother winner Davi Brito issued a statement through her lawyer on September 25 in Salvador, the capital of Brazil\u2019s northeastern state of Bahia, while she was under investigation for suspected links to illegal gambling, misleading advertising, and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bahia\u2019s State Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office initiated the probe into the conduct and activity of content creator Raquel Brito, based on promotions of online gambling platforms, including the Jogo do Tigrinho&#8221; (Fortune Tiger) game.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of the investigation, the authorities are considering whether Brito contributed to the financial loss experienced by users from exposure to these illicit, unregulated platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brito was accompanied by two lawyers for the appearance in Salvador, but she did not speak directly to the press.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"pt\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8ASSISTA: Irm\u00e3 de ex-BBB, Raquel Brito, \u00e9 investigada por suspeita de publicidade enganosa. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tNI0aPQEuZ\">pic.twitter.com\/tNI0aPQEuZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CHOQUEI (@choquei) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/choquei\/status\/1959993531424006654?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/g1.globo.com\/ba\/bahia\/noticia\/2025\/08\/25\/irma-de-davi-brito-presta-depoimento-em-delegacia.ghtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Globo reports<\/a> that an unfortunate incident occurred when the entourage was leaving the hearing, as Brito\u2019s dress tore, leading to an altercation with the media gathered at the scene.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The incident was also broadcast live by TV Aratu\u2019s Al\u00f4 Juca program, leading to further media attention and online commentary.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"wider_action_targeting_influencer_promotions_and_the_scourge_of_unregulated_gambling-2\">Wider action targeting influencer promotions and the scourge of unregulated gambling<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The action pursued against Brito is part of a wider crackdown against influencers and alleged gambling endorsements, with similar cases targeting personalities such as\u00a0 Tain\u00e1 Sousa and Bia Miranda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Similarly, <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/ducky-bhai-alleged-gambling-endorsements\/\">Pakistani YouTuber Ducky Bhai was arrested earlier this month<\/a>\u00a0over alleged gambling promotions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The crackdown in Brazil comes as the country\u2019s Permanent Subcommittee on Sports Betting Regulation stressed that greater focus must be placed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/brazil-congress-hearing-ibjr-gambling-revenue-losses-black-market\/\">massive revenue losses to the illicit black market<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A public hearing in Congress detailed that the underground gambling sector is believed to generate around R$35 billion ($6.4 billion) per year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That is thought to equal around half of all online gambling activity in Brazil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: Raquel Brito \/ Instagram<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/raquel-brito-investigation-alleged-illegal-gambling\/\">Brazilian influencer Raquel Brito probed over illegal gambling promotions<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\">ReadWrite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/raquel-brito-investigation-alleged-illegal-gambling\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Raquel Brito, a social media influencer in Brazil, has been questioned over alleged illegal gambling promotions.\u00a0 The sister of Big Brother winner Davi Brito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":347425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}