Who are Responsa Gamming? Inside the Corinthians deal and compliance

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Central do Timão

·20 December 2025

Who are Responsa Gamming? Inside the Corinthians deal and compliance

By Daniel Keppler / Central do Timão Editorial Team

While the Corinthians team prepares for their last commitment of the season, visiting Vasco this Sunday (21), in a match at Maracanã for the return leg of the Copa do Brasil final, a silent battle is being waged behind the scenes at Parque São Jorge for the master sponsorship that will feature on the black-and-white shirt in 2026, involving the current partner Esportes da Sorte and a contender to replace it: Responsa Gamming.

According to information initially disclosed by Rádio Bandeirantes, discussions between the club and the betting house have been ongoing for a few weeks, aiming for an adjustment to the agreement signed in 2024, which provides for the payment of R$ 309 million over three seasons. The negotiated increase would raise the amount to R$ 600 million over four years, almost 50% more per season.

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However, another proposal has emerged on the radar, presented to President Osmar Stabile on behalf of the company Responsa Gamming, to create a betting brand linked to Corinthians, promising to pay R$ 180 million annually, plus an extra R$ 62 million upon signing (R$ 12 million as a bonus for a potential qualification to the 2026 Copa Libertadores and another R$ 50 million as an advance for the club to pay the transferban). This investigation was first disclosed by the portal UOL.

The word of compliance

The company's offer for the Corinthians master sponsorship is under internal analysis at the club. On the 9th, the black-and-white compliance department issued a due diligence PJ report. The Central do Timão obtained access to the document, which contains ten pages and makes several observations about the group, from the context of its creation to financial and legal characteristics.

Right at the beginning, the report assigns Responsa Gamming a compliance score of 91.67 (considered high). This index comes from a statistical model, provided by the tool used by the department in the due diligence, based on a score from 0 to 100. The higher the number, the greater the risk for Corinthians in engaging in a business with the evaluated company or individual.

Subsequently, the document raises information about the company, created on August 19, 2024, under CNPJ number 56.905.647/0001-17 and headquartered in the city of Belo Horizonte-MG. Considered medium-sized, it has a share capital of R$ 30,000 and had its revenue estimated between R$ 30 million and R$ 100 million by the tool.

The group has a total of seven people in its corporate structure: Aline da Silva Heineck, Bruno Thiago Franco e Braga, Henrique Coimbra Marba, Raquel Calazans Martins da Costa, Sauro Henrique de Almeida, Deivid de Souza, and Estevão Siqueira Nejm. Only against the latter did the compliance raise an individual observation, identifying a criminal case related to “tax, economic crimes, and against consumer relations,” without, however, indicating the status of the case.

Furthermore, Responsa Gamming does not appear on any restrictive list related to companies, such as those targeted by leniency agreements from the General Comptroller's Office (CGU), the Register of Ineligible and Suspended Companies (CEIS), the National Register of Punished Companies (CNEP), the Register of Private Non-Profit Entities Impeded (CEPIM), and the lists of Irregular Accounts and Ineligible Bidders from the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU).

In another section, compliance identified 15 trademark registrations by the company at the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), all made between September and October 2024 to claim the right to use terms such as Responsa Gaming, Responsa Bet, Oddfair, and Joga Limpo.

Finally, the document also conducted a legal sweep to identify cases where the company is currently a party. Nothing was found when searching for cases with the same party name. However, when searching by the CNPJ of Responsa Gamming, only one action was identified, in the civil/administrative sphere, where the company appears as a passive party. However, the nature or status of this process was not detailed.

Other observations

When forwarding the report by email to President Osmar Stabile, other comments were made by the department, complementing the information present in the due diligence. In the text, the short operating time of Responsa Gamming was reinforced, as well as its estimated revenue, considerably lower than the amount offered to the club for the master shirt sponsorship.

It was also recommended that more information be gathered about the legal proceedings raised in the document, and observations were included about a supposed “lack of employee registration” and also about the agreement signed between the group and Grêmio this month – a one-time sponsorship signed by the club from Rio Grande do Sul for its last two games in the Brasileirão, negotiated for about R$ 1 million.

At the time, the company justified the one-time agreement as part of a national expansion strategy aiming for 2026, when the World Cup will take place, a “peak period in sports engagement.” The brand associated with Grêmio, Energia Bet, is one of the two authorized since June by the Secretariat of Prizes and Bets of the Ministry of Finance (SPA/MF) to be operated by Responsa Gamming – the other, Joga Limpo, is not yet officially operating.

Previous experience of a partner

One of the partners of Responsa Gamming, Aline da Silva Heineck, has previous experience in the segment. Between February 2023 and December 2024, she held the position of regional manager for Rio Grande do Sul at Esportes da Sorte. During this same period, incidentally, Grêmio announced a partnership with the betting house, in a contract initially valid for three years, but which was terminated in February 2025 by the club from Rio Grande do Sul.

Additionally, Aline Heineck was also present in the media in the first half of this year, representing the betting house ZeroUm Bet as operations director in the announcement of various sponsorships to clubs such as Chapecoense, Portuguesa, and Guarani. A consultation of the company's website shows that it maintains partnerships with 12 more institutions: ABC, Anápolis, Aparecidense, Boavista, Botafogo-PB, Brusque, Caxias, Floresta, Gama, Itabaiana, Ituano, and River-PI.

It is worth mentioning that ZeroUm Bet recently occupied the national political news, due to its mention in the Bets CPI. The company was founded in July 2024 by influencer Deolane Bezerra, with a share capital of R$ 30 million, and ended up being investigated by the Federal Police, as the opening documents bear the signature of lawyer Adélia de Jesus Soares, investigated by the Federal Police (PF) due to suspicions of helping Chinese nationals exploit illegal betting in Brazil.

Five months after its founding, the influencer sold ZeroUm Bet to businessman José Daniel Carvalho Saturnino, known as Daniel Trajano, who until April this year worked in marketing at Esportes da Sorte and became known to Corinthians fans after his son, Danielzinho, was hired for the club's Under-20 team, shortly after being released from Grêmio's youth system. The young man would end up leaving Terrão in July.

Daniel Trajano is still listed as one of the five partners of ZeroUm Bet, along with Leila Luana Pardim Tavares Lima, Jair Machado Júnior, Marcella Ferraz de Oliveira, and Ana Bratriz Scipião Barros. Under CNPJ 55.997.392/0001-05, the company had its registration denied by the SPA/MF, but currently holds a license to operate through an injunction obtained in the São Paulo court, through three brands: ZeroUm, Energia, and SporVip. Only the first has a functioning website currently.

Involvement of internal bodies

The Central do Timão found that President Osmar Stabile does not wish to make a decision alone on which proposal to accept: the renewal of Esportes da Sorte or its replacement by Responsa Gamming. In the president's view, it is a key business for the club and, for this reason, he seeks the support of internal bodies so that his decision has full backing at Parque São Jorge.

In a move in this direction, Stabile would be considering forwarding the proposal from Responsa Gamming for analysis by the Advisory Council (CORI), with the aim of receiving written approval to establish the partnership. The initiative, however, is viewed with suspicion by members of the body interviewed by the editorial team, who understand that signing sponsorships is a management act, exclusive to the board, and that statutorily the CORI should only be consulted on business related to loans and sales of high-value athletes.

Even putting into perspective the group's involvement in the decision to sign with Nike or Adidas in the first half of this year, the assessment remained. In the view of these members, the participation of CORI in that negotiation served to support a management that, being interim (due to the precautionary removal of Augusto Melo from office), lacked internal legitimacy, which would no longer be the case currently, as Stabile is the elected president.

Another part of the Corinthians president's strategy would be to convince the president of the Deliberative Council (CD) Romeu Tuma Júnior to sign the contract, jointly, with Stabile, also with the aim of showing unity in the decision. The Central do Timão found, however, that the initiative was not well received, due to its novelty – agreements of this type are never signed by a CD representative.

Still on the subject, Tuma sent a message to the councilors this Friday (19), stating that the CD does not exert any pressure on the board regarding contract signing, including sponsorships. According to him, councilors who eventually join the management act as board members and do not speak for the body. He also emphasized that the CD only issues recommendations when consulted by the board and denied that the body has expressed itself on the master, highlighting that any decision on the subject is exclusively up to Stabile.

Word from Responsa Gamming

The Central do Timão contacted two of the seven partners of Responsa Gamming to comment on their interest in sponsoring Corinthians. One of them sent the editorial team an official note commenting on the matter (read below). When subsequently asked whether the compliance observations were officially addressed and whether the company provided bank guarantees proving its backing, the partner chose not to respond.

Read the full note:

“At no time did compliance oppose the signing of the contract. All points raised by the club are legitimate concerns and were addressed and explained calmly.

We are fully aware of the importance of this contract for the club and reinforce our commitment that the entire process be conducted with the utmost transparency possible, always with the aim of protecting the interests of the club and the Corinthians Nation.”

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