A court in Brasília has given Spribe, the company behind the online betting game Aviator, known in Brazil as the "little airplane" game, 10 days to cut off the supply of the product to betting sites that operate without a federal license. The order was signed on Monday (14) by Judge Luciana Correa Sette Torres de Oliveira of the 7th Civil Court of Brasília, in a public civil action brought by the Federal District and Territories prosecutors' office (MPDFT). If the company fails to comply, it faces a daily fine of 100,000 reais, initially capped at 10 million reais, according to news site Metrópoles.
In an urgent injunction, the judge ordered Spribe to immediately suspend the integrations, credentials, licenses and access that let unauthorized operators offer Aviator in Brazil. The company must also file a report listing its authorized operators, aggregators, distributors and partners, disclose the domains, integrations, credentials and APIs used to distribute the game, set up and prove continuous monitoring, traceability, georestriction and blocking mechanisms, and preserve contracts, records, logs and audits. For now, the judge denied the prosecutors' request to suspend the game on licensed platforms too, calling that measure "excessively burdensome and disproportionate", and may revisit the point after the company's full defense. Part of the case file remains under restricted access.
How the case reached the courts
The MPDFT inquiry opened in June, to determine whether Spribe was supplying the game at once to betting houses licensed by the Ministry of Finance and to clandestine sites. In three virtual inspections between July and September, investigators accessed illegal platforms, recorded the presence of the game and preserved the evidence, the same method used in a case against the betting company Blaze that named influencer Virgínia Fonseca, Folha de S.Paulo reports.
Once notified, Spribe audited the addresses flagged by prosecutors, removed the game from some of them and reported finding "possible unauthorized cloning of the product". The platforms, however, came back online with small changes of subdomain or technical parameters. "We identified more than 30 new addresses over the course of the investigation, and 10 of them appeared after Spribe claimed to have adopted removal measures", prosecutor Paulo Roberto Binicheski said in the suit. One of the sites checked by prosecutors was still online on Tuesday morning (15), listing Aviator as its most played slot. The case has also reached Senacon, the consumer protection secretariat of the Ministry of Justice, which opened its own investigation into the developer.
What each side argues
The Consumer Protection Prosecutor's Office contends that the company collects "significant financial gains from the game's high popularity, with estimated global revenue of US$ 200 million", while passing the costs of the illicit activity on to consumers. In the suit, Binicheski wrote:
"The persistence of the irregular offering, even after notifications and isolated removals, suggests structural failures in the mechanisms of licensing, authentication, georestriction, traceability, distribution, auditing and supervision."
In a statement, Spribe's defense said it will comply with the ruling and noted that the judge herself found the total ban sought by prosecutors disproportionate. "We have continuously and proactively assisted in the removal of unauthorized sites and adopted firm measures to restrict access to our products on irregular platforms", the company said. It argues the problem described by prosecutors is structural and affects all game providers. "The asymmetry of treatment, by directing the measure at a single company instead of addressing the situation of the sector as a whole, raises concerns and will be duly addressed in the case."
The ruling lands amid a government crackdown on illegal betting. Licensed operators pay a 30 million reais licensing fee to the Ministry of Finance. Finance Minister Dario Durigan said in July that more than 56,000 illegal betting apps and sites were taken down between January 2025 and June 2026, and nearly a thousand influencer profiles were removed from social networks. Counted from the signing of the order on September 14, Spribe's 10-day deadline ends on September 24. After the company files its defense, the judge may reassess a total suspension of Aviator on licensed platforms. The Ministry of Finance expects to publish rules for online casino game suppliers later this year.