The body wants to know whether there were irregularities in the transfer of parliamentary funds after a report indicated a loss of R$ 15 million due to inappropriate use of resources
The (Public Prosecutor’s Office next to the Federal Court of Auditors) requested this Wednesday (13.Nov.2024) that the Court of Auditors investigate irregularities in the transfer of public resources via parliamentary amendments to NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations).
The representation, authored by the deputy attorney general of the MPTCU, Lucas Furtado, is based on a report from the CGU (Comptroller General of the Union), which identified R$15 million in losses due to the organizations’ inadequate management of resources. Read the document (PDF – 260 kB).
How the Poder360the controller identified values not applied to projects, unused items, avoidable expenses or expenses related to overpricing and overpricing. The amount adds up R$ 15.062.152 and refers to resources transferred in the form of parliamentary amendments from 2020 to 2024.
The MPTCU expressed concern about the signs of irregularities indicated by the CGU. Therefore, it requests that the Court initiate special accounting procedures to hold the agents involved accountable and that the MPF (Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office) be informed of the results.
“Each of the entities executing the resources must be called upon to comment on the conclusions of the CGU so that this Court can carry out the due assessment of the loss and make the appropriate imputation of debt and application of fines to the resource managers”wrote the deputy prosecutor.
IRREGULARITIES IN AMENDMENTS
The CGU report identified that half of the NGOs analyzed (5 out of 10) do not have the technical or operational capacity to execute the contracts. It concluded that there is a general picture of fragile governance mechanisms, little transparency in the disclosure of information regarding the execution of funds and work plans that are not very detailed. According to the agency, the facts make it difficult to monitor 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”.
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