Investigation filed by the House of Representatives adds to the processes that the Court already evaluated
The TCU (Federal Court of Audit) considered legitimate, on Wednesday (13.ago.2025), the request of the Commission for Financial Inspection and Control of the Chamber of Deputies to enforce and provide information on how the federal government is spending public money on the preparation of COP30, with emphasis on avoiding waste, irregularities or lack of transparency. Here is the court decision ( – 387 kb).
The Court, in the judgment of the case, informs that the request is part of the analyzes already existing in the court about the conference. “It should be clarified that TCU has already been actively acting on the hires regarding the organization and realization of COP30 […] These new processes add to them ”informed the Court in the registration of the process.
The request includes analysis of the following contracts:
- Audit or knowledge of TCU about the R $ 478.3 million contract between the federal government and the Ibero-American Organization (OEI) for COP30, including results and compliance with bidding requirements;
- beginning of budget execution of R $ 1 billion reserved for COP30 by 2025 and availability of partial compliance reports;
- supervision of R $ 1.3 billion contributions from Itaipu Binacional for infrastructure works in Belém;
- Monitoring of R $ 263 million contract between the Civil House and Embratur for cruise ships bedsand the technical justifications for this hiring; and
- forecast of continuous monitoring or special audit on the R $ 4.7 billion in investments announced by the federal government for works related to COP30.
The rapporteur of the case, Aroldo Cedraz, stated that “As soon as the indicated processes are analyzed by the TCU, they will be sent to the Chamber”.
