‘VAR committed a crime, and it was in a big team game in Brazilian Series A’, says president of the Manipulation CPI

President of CPI for Manipulation of Games and Sports Bettingthe senator Jorge Kajuru (PSB-GO) revealed that images brought by John Textorowner of SAF do Botafogoattest to a “crime” committed by the VAR at the Brazilian championship 2023. He did not say which game was in question, but said the video was “scandalous” and gave clues, promising to reveal it soon.

– The VAR committed a crime, he issued an offside call and another penalty. Did you edit by choice or not? Edited! Therefore, he showed Brazil something that was not true. I unfortunately don’t have the right to talk about the game, but it’s from Series A of the Brazilian Championship and a big team from Rio and São Paulo, from 2023. The image he showed us is scandalous, there is no way to argue. And it’s a classic, it’s not an ordinary game – Kajuru revealed to journalist Jaeci Carvalho’s YouTube channel last Wednesday (24/4).

According to the senator, Daiane Caroline Muniz dos Santosa video referee who will be heard by the CPI, is involved in the aforementioned game.

– The problem is not accusing this VAR referee, I have no proof, but rather the coincidence of her being present in games with questionable images. There are things he shows on both sides. He (John Textor) doesn’t just have the official VAR images. He hired his company to make the images behind the goals for him. He has a clash of images. In 80% he is a marketer, he wants to defend Botafogo, but in 20% we cannot disrespect, we have to see, analyze, investigate and reach an honest conclusion. And why is she coincidentally in these games where the VAR made a mistake and also edited it in one game? I’m not accusing this referee, but her coincidence is in these same games – said Kajuru.

Jorge Kajuru also spoke about Palm trees 5×0 São Paulo for the 2023 Brazilian Championship, a classic in which, according to a report from the company “Good Game!”, there was evidence of result manipulation due to the attitudes of athletes from the tricolor team.

– He points out the five São Paulo players, who he denounces as players who received bribes from Palmeiras in that Palmeiras 5×0 São Paulo game. Of these five, I point to two as signs that could become evidence. In one play, the defender is glued to the attacker who enters the penalty area, and the defender moves away oceanically, giving him free passage, saying: “Go in with the ball and everything and score the goal”. It’s a scandalous image, or not? Of the five goals, two for me are serious, they will scare the world fans. They are totally suspected of manipulation, I cannot accuse them. I will present the images and everyone can interpret it as they wish – said the senator.

– There are other images that we are going to put into discussion, which is why I say that 20% of his material I put in doubt, in check, because it can turn from evidence into evidence. Eighty percent is his marketing side, which wants to take away Palmeiras’ merit as Brazilian champion and say that Botafogo was 100% robbed, robbed, harmed – he added.