Brazil has “lost a decade” fighting corruption, says Transparency International

The country falls 25 positions in the last ten years; the ranking evaluates 180 countries

A report by the NGO Transparency International underlines that Brazil has not evolved in the fight against corruption in the last two years, reaching the same 38 points in an indicator that evaluates 180 countries in this sense, the Corruption Perception Index. Looking back over the past ten years, the country drops 25 places in the rankings and scores similar to countries such as Argentina, Indonesia, Lesotho and Turkey. The new poll data was released on Tuesday the 31st.

“The CPI time series shows that Brazil had a lost decade in the fight against corruption,” the organization wrote in a press release. “The outcome reflects the accelerated dismantling of the anti-corruption legal and institutional frameworks that the country had taken decades to build. Coupled with the setback in its ability to address corruption, Brazil has suffered an unprecedented degradation of its democratic regime.” .

Bolsonaro government and secret budget

In an analysis of Brazil, Transparency International attributes the country’s weak performance in fighting corruption to the institutionalization of schemes such as the secret budget; to what he called “omissions” by the Attorney General of the Republic; the dissemination of false news; the performance of former president Jair Bolsonaro on supervisory bodies; and the procedural “heterodoxies” adopted by the Federal Tribunal “in the face of serious threats and attacks on democratic institutions and order”.

It also argues that there has been a “dramatic reduction in transparency and access to public information” with “government data blackout and illegal use of confidentiality, due to the abuse of the general data protection law personal”.

The organization places particular emphasis on the secret budget, a mechanism revealed by the Stage which, according to Transparency, “perverted the formulation of public policies in essential sectors such as health, education and social assistance”. “Moreover, by pouring billions into municipalities lacking institutional control capacity, corruption has further spread in the country, fueling fraud and diversions at the local level,” she added.

As regards the work of the judiciary, the organization notes that there have been “continuous decisions to annul sentences confirmed by several instances or to transfer the competence to judge cases of corruption on a generalized basis”. According to the report, this movement has caused legal uncertainty, statute of limitations for crimes and impunity for cases of macro-corruption.

It also highlights “heterodox judicial decisions in the face of serious anti-democratic threats”, which would continually circumvent procedural guarantees and individual rights. The text cites controversial measures of the STF, such as the search and seizure warrants issued by minister Alexandre de Moraes against Bolsonarist businessmen defending a possible coup. “Although the seriousness of the threat is indisputable, the measures have raised questions about the proportionality of the actions, especially in the case of targets without active participation in the dialogues,” the body writes.

The support of former judge Sérgio Moro and former prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol for Bolsonaro’s candidacy was also seen by the organization as a deviation from the meaning of the anti-corruption lawsuit.

The NGO also cites the “parallel office” of the Ministry of Education, revealed by Stagein which pastors with no ties to the education sector and no public office held commanded then-Minister Milton Ribeiro’s agenda and interfered in the release of resources from the wallet.

Source: Terra

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