Transparency International: It is false information that it received amounts from Lava Jato

Transparency International Brazil denied, in a statement, that it had received or managed amounts recovered through leniency agreements signed within the scope of Lava Jato. Earlier, Minister Dias Toffoli, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), ordered the investigation of the NGO to investigate possible appropriation of public resources. According to the decision, the organization would have been responsible for managing the application of R$2.3 billion in social investments provided for in J&F's leniency agreement.

“Transparency International has never received or would receive, directly or indirectly, any resources from the J&F group leniency agreement or any leniency agreement in Brazil. The organization would also not have – and never claimed – any role in managing such resources”, says the NGO in a note.

According to the text, the entity limited itself to presenting a technical study with transparency and governance guidelines and practices for the allocation of resources recovered in cases of corruption. “The report included a recommendation that the Public Ministry should not be involved in the management of these resources. The study and recommendations did not and do not have any binding or decision-making nature”, he states.

The NGO also says that the allegation that it had received resources from leniency agreements has already been denied by the organization, authorities and the Federal Public Ministry (MPF). “Despite this, this fake news has been used for almost five years in serious and growing campaigns of defamation and harassment of the organization”, continues the entity.

In the decision handed down today, Toffoli pointed out that the NGO's collaboration did not pass the scrutiny of the Judiciary and the Federal Court of Auditors (TCU). “According to the clauses of the agreement, instead of the allocation of resources, strictly speaking from the National Treasury, being guided by legal and budgetary norms, it was intended for a private institution, even more alien and based in Berlin”, stated the minister .