Compliance programs and the fight against corporate corruption

05May
2016

Compliance programs and the fight against corporate corruption

Law 12.846/2013, better known as the Anti-Corruption Law, represented a milestone in the legal system of the country since it established guidelines for corporate responsibilization for acts against Public Administration. The Law innovates because encourage companies to take part of the responsibility to monitor suspicious behaviors of their employees through internal mechanisms and “integrity procedures”, better known as compliance mechanisms. By 2015, however, it was still not clear how to implement these “integrity programs”, which changed with the publication of Decree 8.420/2015, which came to regulate the provisions of the Anti-Corruption Law. From that moment, it is up to both companies and the public administration to adapt their behavior to the legal provisions and fulfill their role in the fight against corruption. Bruno Fernandes wrote an article in which he analyzes the possibilities of action of the Public Advocacy in this context, which was published in the magazine Fórum Administrativo.

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FERNADES DIAS, Bruno. O papel da Advocacia Pública nos programas de integridade para o combate à corrupção nas empresas. Revista Fórum Administrativo, ano 16, n. 182, 2016, pp. 9-24.