The (Comptroller General of the Union) and (General Advocacy of the Union) signed on Wednesday (30) leniency agreement in the amount of R $ 728.3 million with the companies Seatrium Limited, Jurong Shipyard and Jurong Aracruz.
Representatives of the Jurong Shipyard were accused by the payment of improper advantages to Brazilian public agents for hiring with. The company was one of the hired to build the DA DA Sete Brasil drilling probes.
Seatrium is a Singapore -based company, the result of the merger of two naval giants, Sembcorp Marine and Keppel Offshore. Controls jurong shipyard and three shipyards in the country: Jurong Aracruz, Espírito Santo, Brasfels, in Rio de Janeiro, and Seatrium Singmarine in Santa Catarina.
In 2020, Judge Luiz Antônio Bonat, who replaces Sergio Moro at the Lava Jato Federal Court, sentenced to seven and a half years for corruption, and six and a half years for corruption and money laundering in the process involving jurong.
“During the agreement of the agreement, the CGU evaluated the company’s adopted integrity program, which includes code of ethics and conduct, compliance policies, as well as internal procedures and controls,” the municipality said in a statement.
“As a result, in addition to payments, companies committed to continuing to implement advances on their compliance program,” he added.
The agreement was attended by the Federal Public Prosecution Service and its equivalent in Singapore.
Since 2017, CGU and AGU have signed 34 agreements with companies investigated for the practice of harmful acts provided for in the Anti -Corruption Law, the Administrative Misconduct Law and the Bidding Law, with a total value of more than $ 20 billion, said CGU. So far, $ 10 billion have been paid. Lenience is a kind of collaboration agreement for companies.
“In addition to the financial impact, the agreements have generated structuring changes in the private sector,” the agency said in a statement.
“Signarian companies assume formal commitments to implement and improve robust integrity programs, internal control mechanisms and compliance practices, promoting a change in organizational culture.”
Among Seatrium -controlled shipyards in Brazil, Brasfels maintained an order card even during the naval sector crisis generated by the suspension of contracts after Lava Jato, mainly manufacturing modules for platforms built by the group abroad.
Jurong Aracruz, now known as Seatrium Aracruz, began to be built in 2011 to make Sete Brasil’s probes and spent years in crisis with the suspension of orders. Currently has a contract for the construction of oil platform modules.
