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STF Orders Federal Police Probe of NGO Earmarks as Dino Sets Accountability Deadlines

Audits found R$15.18 million in losses and structural control failures, prompting warnings about tactics that could revive the discarded “secret budget.”

Overview

  • Minister Flávio Dino sent the CGU audit on 2020–2024 transfers to NGOs to the Federal Police, which may open new cases or add the material to ongoing inquiries.
  • He directed the Attorney General’s Office to form a working group within 15 days to pursue civil and administrative liability and instructed the CGU to launch Anti‑Corruption Law proceedings.
  • The Casa Civil has 60 days to standardize ministerial rules for executing earmarks, and Executive and Legislative leaders were told to report corrective measures by the end of November.
  • CGU auditors cited vague work plans, directed contracting, false self‑declarations and overpricing across dozens of entities, with estimated damage of about R$15.18 million, or 4.5% of audited funds.
  • Even as enforcement intensifies, Prosecutor General Paulo Gonet urged the Court to uphold impositive and Pix earmarks under transparency conditions, and the PGR sought convictions of three deputies in a related STF case.