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Weekly Report - 26 July 2007 (ISSN 1741-7422)

BRAZIL: A small step against corruption

Last week the independent government auditor, the Controladoria Geral da União (CGU), banned a construction company implicated in cases of corruption and fraud to participate in public tenders. The CGU order would be considered a normal proceeding in many places, but in Brazil this is not the case. Indeed, despite all the scandals and irregularities in public tenders uncovered by the police and reported in the media, only 24 companies are banned from providing services for the government by the its juridical overseer on financial matters, the Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU).

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