The minister, of the (Supreme Court), said on Tuesday (30) that participates in the discussion of a bill and Brazilian entities.
The statement was made to journalists after a lecture in which the minister argued that Brazil discusses ways to increase their digital autonomy and reduce dependence.
“We are leaning over a anti-embargoing law to protect the authorities as well as those so-called entities that suffer secondary sanctions such as banks and service providers,” Gilmar said after attending a Lide Group event in Brasilia.
“You have to get in this world a little and discuss it, and I think Congress is the right locus for this type of protection.”
Gilmar cited punishments that were applied to Brazilian authorities, such as the suspension by the United States of Supreme Ministers visas and the application of the magnitsky law, which imposes financial sanctions on the minister.
He said “this is a phenomenon that is also happening with European authorities” and, therefore, the need to discuss the theme in Brazil as well.
The minister did not explain in detail how the discussion of this project has been made or with which people in Congress.
Earlier, in the lecture, Gilmar stated that Brazil has critical dependence on foreign companies that control strategic technologies, such as 5G infrastructure.
He also said that “more than $ 3 billion was spent on public contracts for cloud solutions and software licensed by four global conglomerates.”
“This technological concentration transcends the economy and directly impacts national security by exposing strategic information to opaque algorithms and the jurisdictions of others. It is a systemic problem that goes beyond the economic plane. It is the very notion of sovereignty that is at stake.”
Initially approved in 2012 in Barack Obama management and then expanded in 2016, magnitsky law and visa restrictions against foreigners accused of corruption or human rights violations.
The name mentions Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer and financial auditor who, by reporting a tax fraud of the Russian government in 2008, was arrested and, almost a year later, died in jail.
The law provides for two main types of sanctions: personal immigration, which correspond to measures such as prohibition of granting visas and revocation of entry authorizations in the US, and financial. In this case the main sanctions are the freezing of goods in the US and the prohibition that citizens and US companies do business with the sanctioned.
