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Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on
“Putting Anti-Corruption
Commitments into Practice:
Transparency, Participation
and the Rule of Law”
Rabat, 9th of June 2011
Mario Vinicius Spinelli
Secretary for Corruption Prevention and Strategic Information Office of the Comptroller General - Brazil
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• Federation: Union; 26 States; the
Federal District
• 5,564 Municipalities
• Population of Brazil =~ 190 million
• Democratic republic, with a
presidential system
• Eighth economy in the world with a
GDP about 2 trillion dollars
• Area: 8,514,877 km2
BRAZIL – AN OVERVIEW
24 Federal Ministries and 13 Institutions of Ministerial Status
Total Employment in the Federal Government: 1 482 026
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Institutional Framework
CGU is the Internal Audit Unit
and the Anti-Corruption
Agency of the Brazilian
Federal Government
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Ombudsman
Disciplinary
actions
Audit actions
(Internal Control)
Prevention
and
Transparency
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CGU - Countrywide Presence
13
31 49 43
17
48
43 48
79
91
64
65
32
33
18
20
37
109
34
30
57 42
35 71
36
13
DF: 1.312 Total: 2.476
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MAIN AUDIT ACTIONS (INTERNAL CONTROL)
- Control of the Federal Government's direct spending - Control of Transfers to States and Municipalities - Control of Transfers to citizens (such as
Conditional Cash Transfers)
Public Spending Observatory
United Nations Public Service Awards – UNPSA
2011
Category - Advancing Knowledge Management
in Government
Latin America and the Caribbean
1st Place Winner
Brazil
Data-matching and tracking system
AUDIT ACTIONS
(Information Technology)
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CORRUPTION PREVENTION GUIDELINES
• Increasing transparency
• Fostering public oversight
• Establishing public-private cooperation
• Improving legal framework
• Promoting education for ethics and citizenship
• Improving internal control efficiency
• Financing studies and research on corruption
By state/county
Direct Spending
Budget year
Transfers
Transparency pages
Transfers to citizens
Punished Firms
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Technical Language:
“Action number 8442 - Transfer of direct
income to Families in condition of Poverty
and extreme Poverty”
Citizen Language:
“Bolsa-Família” (Family Aid)
TRANSPARENCY PORTAL Citizen Language
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TRANSPARENCY PORTAL IN NUMBERS
Disclosed Amount
Registered payments
BRL 8 Trillions USD 4.8 Trillions
More than 1 Billion
Average Monthly Access
(until March 2011) 232,248
6 4 . 3 2 62 8 5 . 9 6 8
3 7 7 . 0 7 86 4 6 . 7 0 1
1. 4 4 3 . 6 101. 7 0 4 . 2 8 4
2 . 9 3 8 . 15 2
6 9 6 . 7 4 5
0
500.000
1.000.000
1.500.000
2.000.000
2.500.000
3.000.000
Until
mar
2011
2010200920082007200620052004
Visitors by year
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In the last 7 years,
more than 3,000
public servants have
been discharged
MEASURES AGAINST IMPUNITY
MAIN DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS
Enforcement on
companies
MEASURES AGAINST IMPUNITY
barred
companies 2,341 temporarily
suspended
companies 2,128
CGU MEASURES AGAINST IMPUNITY – LAW
ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION WITH PUBLIC AGENCIES
COOPERATION REQUESTS FROM THE FEDERAL POLICE
• 5 in 2004 to 525 in 2011
COOPERATION WITH THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE
(since 2003)
• Over 2 400 audits and inspections requested
• More than 2 452 proceedings based on CGU inspections
COOPERATION WITH THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OFFICE
(since 2008)
• 440 lawsuits based on CGU reports
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The Challenges We Have Faced in Brazil in Confronting Corruption
• Disseminate the idea that transparency is worth its inevitable
political price
• Ensure sound cooperation and proper relationships with other
institutions and the media
• Strike the proper balance between preventive and repressive
measures
• Stimulate social participation and public oversight
• Promote the engagement of the private sector
• Overcome deep-seated legal interpretations of the law that
hinder anti-corruption actions, such as bank secrecy, etc
• Reduce impunity and improve the judiciary system
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OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER-GENERAL
Setor de Autarquia Sul,
Quadra 1, Bloco A
Edifício Darcy Ribeiro
Brasília - DF
CEP: 70070-905
Tel: +55 61 2020-7264
www.cgu.gov.br