The body analyzed the transfer of funds from 2020 to 2024 and identified unused items, avoidable expenses, overpricing and overpricing
An audit by the (Comptroller General of the Union) delivered to the STF (Supreme Federal Court) this Tuesday (12.nov.2024) identified that R$ 15.062.152 in amendments passed on to NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) from 2020 to 2024 they were classified as losses.
The amounts caused damage to the treasury because they were not applied to projects, because they referred to unused items or avoidable expenses or related to overpricing and overpricing. Read the document (PDF – 9 MB).
The audit analyzed the 10 institutions that received the most amendments in the period, with 7 showing some type of loss. Considering the individual, bench, committee and rapporteur amendments, R$5.69 billion were allocated to NGOs from 2020 to 2024.
In the same report, the CGU states that half of the organizations analyzed do not have the technical or operational capacity to execute the contracts. It concluded that there is a general picture of technical and operational deficiencies, fragile governance mechanisms, little transparency in the dissemination of information regarding the execution of funds and work plans that are not very detailed, which leads to difficulties in monitoring the implementation of projects.
The data was compiled in response to a demand from the Supreme Court in actions dealing with congressmen’s amendments. The determination was made by Minister Flávio Dino, rapporteur of these processes, in August.
The amendments have been the target of a series of decisions by the minister, who suspended their transfers until mechanisms are defined by Congress that provide greater transparency regarding their destination and who indicated the funds.
This is one of the points raised by the CGU in the report. Based on the analysis of the 10 NGOs, the body verified that the mechanisms for monitoring and monitoring the execution of transfers “they are incipient, not allowing the execution of the agreed objects or the goals set out in the transfer instruments to be assessed”.
ACTION AGAINST AMENDMENTS
The report was filed with the ADPF (Argument of Failure to Comply with a Fundamental Precept) 854. The action was filed by the Psol in 2021 against the rapporteur’s amendments, called the “secret budget”. In reality, there is no secret budget. All amendments proposed by deputies and senators are publicly executed – when the money is paid. What there is is a lack of transparency in part of the amendments regarding exactly which congressmen made these inclusions. This is what the STF is determining to be presented proactively by the Legislature.
The STF in 2022, but Dino accepted a complaint that the commission amendments were repeating the lack of transparency mechanism and, on August 1st, new transparency measures.
The movements in the process, added to other actions that were filed over the last few months also dealing with the same themes as the amendments, ended up increasing tension between the STF and Congress.
In mid-August, all Supreme Court ministers, representatives of the federal government and the presidents of the Chamber and Senate met at the Court’s headquarters for a meeting with the aim of reaching an agreement on the amendments, which had been the subject of decisions de Dino, rapporteur of the actions at the Court. It was decided that the mandatory amendments were maintained, but that their release must comply with transparency and traceability criteria.
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