An audit by the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) shows that there are irregularities in the transfer of around R$27 million in amendments that were allocated to ten Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) between 2020 and 2024. Among the NGOs listed in the CGU document , obtained by People’s Gazettemost present at least one irregularity in a list of eight items analyzed.
Just over R$18 million has already been paid to the entities. The amount allocated, however, represents only 28.8% of the total committed to a universe of 274 benefiting entities.
Six out of nine Entities analyzed by the CGU did not go through a public call or competition for projects, as required by law. Furthermore, half of the entities does not have the team or structure, material or physics to carry out the project. In one of the casesthe beneficiary entity did not have its own employees or facilities.
In the report, the CGU presented data from two entities per region of Brazil. The two NGOs in the Northeast, one from Paraíba and the other from Bahia, benefited with more than R$9.8 million. NGOs from the North, in turn, total R$6.4 million. NGOs from the Southeast and Central-West total R$4.9 million and R$3.3 million, respectively. The two NGOs from the South, both from Rio Grande do Sul, together received R$600,000.
Audit of NGOs meets STF determination
The audit of the transfers was carried out to comply with a decision by the Federal Supreme Court within the scope of Direct Action of Unconstitutionality (ADI) 7688. The decision, handed down by minister Flávio Dino, asked the CGU to carry out a sweep of all parliamentary amendments that were intended to NGOs and other third sector entities between 2020 and 2024.
However, according to a document obtained by People’s Gazetteit was not possible to track all transfers as they would have been made through so-called “pix amendments”, and therefore, it is not possible to identify the final beneficiary of the transfers.
“The limitations in defining the universe and scope of the technical evidence presented are due to the impossibility of accessing, through the Union’s corporate systems, data on the final beneficiaries of the resources, including those intended for NGOs and other third sector entities”, says the CGU report.
To mitigate this limitation and make the audit work possible, the CGU reported having prepared and sent a form to the 200 states or municipalities that received the most Pix amendments between 2020 and 2024.
Despite the limited scope and weaknesses highlighted by the CGU itself, such as the absence or incompleteness of responses from some states or municipalities, in the document, there is no indication that the body will move forward with the investigations.
