Mendonça sets a 60-day deadline for companies to renegotiate leniency agreements signed in the Lava Jato corruption scandal.
The Attorney General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet, and the president of the TCU (Federal Court of Accounts), Minister Bruno Dantas, agreed with the decision.
247 - Brazilian Supreme Court Justice André Mendonça has set a 60-day deadline for companies investigated in the now-defunct Lava Jato operation to renegotiate leniency agreements signed by the self-proclaimed task force up to 2020. During this period, fines will be suspended.
According to the minister, the objective of the conciliation is to ensure that companies negotiate with public entities based on the principles of good faith, mutual cooperation, confidentiality, reasonableness, and proportionality, as highlighted by the newspaper O Globo.
The Attorney General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet, and the President of the TCU (Federal Court of Accounts), Minister Bruno Dantas, agreed on the importance of initiating a dialogue.
The agreements involve companies such as Braskem, Samsung, Nova Enegevix, Camargo Corrêa, Novonor (formerly Odebrecht), J&F, and Metha (formerly OAS).
In a lawsuit filed with the Supreme Federal Court (STF), the PSOL, PCdoB, and Solidariedade parties requested the suspension of all leniency agreements signed before August 2020, when the technical cooperation agreement signed by the Supreme Court, the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU), the Attorney General of the Union (AGU), the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU), and the Ministry of Justice came into effect.
Before this technical cooperation, the parties stated, the defunct "Lava Jato" operation used leniency agreements to blackmail defendants. The parties requested that the Supreme Court evaluate the possibility of reviewing the agreements. (With information from...) Conjur).