Up to November this year, 63 actions have been carried out, compared to 60 last year and 21 in total for 2020 and 2021
A Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) has initiated, up to November this year, 63 liability proceedings against companies that have circumvented the Anti-Corruption Law. This is a record, which exceeds the 60 administrative responsibility (PAR) processes initiated last year. Compared to 2020 and 2021, shares tripled, as the two years combined had 21 PAR.
The unprecedented number for 2023 was reached on Wednesday the 29th, when the Minister of the CGU, Vinícius de Carvalho, published in the Official Journal of the Union (DOU) two approvals of requests for early judgment by companies under investigation.
Regarding early judgments, where the company requests a faster procedure and assumes responsibility for the facts, the CGU has already conducted 25 PARs during this year, which resulted in a financial amount of over 35.5 million of R$ of sanctions applied. Compared to 2022, there were eight PARs judged in advance, for a total of just over R$23 million.
In addition to the financial penalty, the CGU ordered 26 companies sanctioned by the Anti-Corruption Law to carry out the extraordinary publication of their respective conviction decisions. Institutions must provide the company with broad knowledge of the reasons why they have been punished, with publications in widely circulated newspapers for one day and on the company website and headquarters for 30 days.
In this year’s decisions, 18 companies were considered ineligible, meaning these institutions will not be able to participate in new tenders for the established period. Another 12 companies had their right to bid and contract temporarily suspended.
These numbers were possible, according to the CGU, thanks to an internal restructuring of the organization. In the change, the Leniency Agreement, Integrity and Accountability sectors were brought together into the Private Integrity Secretariat. This new institutional model has made the sanctioning processes more agile and has made the search for greater integrity in the relationship between companies and Public Administration more effective.
Source: Terra
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