wealthiest and most influential bicheiros and contraventores of the city of Rio de Janeiro during the 1970s and 1980s. Tio Patinhas operated numerous pontos...

culprits. After the mysterious disappearance of Guto, the chief bicheiro Tio Patinhas gave Guimarães Guto's bank. Within three years Guimarães gained...

bank in Barra da Tijuca in 1959 and subsequently became one of the major bicheiros of Rio de Janeiro with Castor de Andrade, Carlinhos Maracanã, Raul Capitão...

regional basis using the daily state lottery draw, by criminals known as bicheiros, banqueiros ("bankers"), or contraventores. Despite its popularity, especially...

the 1980s, Castor de Andrade was the uncontested leader of all the main bicheiros and contraventores of the city of Rio de Janeiro, and had more than 100...

is an operator in the illegal jogo do bicho lottery (popularly known as bicheiro) and the honorary president of the Beija-Flor samba school in Nilópolis...

July 2020), nicknamed Luizinho Drummond, was an illegal lottery operator (bicheiro) and the patron of samba school Imperatriz Leopoldinense. He was the president...

in the early 1990s as an uncorruptabe federal prosecutor taking on the bicheiros, the operators of the jogo do bicho ("the animals' game"), a popular illegal...

ran the game in a number of towns, including Niteroi, and was one of 14 bicheiros or banqueiros—"bankers" as the game's operators are known—who were sentenced...

official league, the AESCRJ representatives of ten samba schools, led by bicheiros, helped found the LIESA in 1984. They were not in agreement with the state...

illegal but popular numbers gamble) in Rio de Janeiro. The so-called bicheiros were a notorious source of corruption of police officers, politicians...

Hurricane Operation, imprisoned, among others, the patron of the school, the bicheiro Anísio Abraão David, and also seized a large amount of money that, according...