1.0Chenut Advogadoshttps://chenut.onlineAdministradorhttps://chenut.online/author/administrador/(English) The new Brazilian Anti-Corruption Act - Chenut Advogadosrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="nS1JwtusNF"><a href="https://chenut.online/english-the-new-brazilian-anti-corruption-act/">(English) The new Brazilian Anti-Corruption Act</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://chenut.online/english-the-new-brazilian-anti-corruption-act/embed/#?secret=nS1JwtusNF" width="600" height="338" title="“(English) The new Brazilian Anti-Corruption Act” — Chenut Advogados" data-secret="nS1JwtusNF" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(c,d){"use strict";var e=!1,o=!1;if(d.querySelector)if(c.addEventListener)e=!0;if(c.wp=c.wp||{},c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage);else if(c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(!t);else if(!(t.secret||t.message||t.value));else if(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret));else{for(var r,s,a,i=d.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),n=d.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),l=0;l<n.length;l++)n[l].style.display="none";for(l=0;l<i.length;l++)if(r=i[l],e.source!==r.contentWindow);else{if(r.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3<(s=parseInt(t.value,10)))s=1e3;else if(~~s<200)s=200;r.height=s}if("link"===t.message)if(s=d.createElement("a"),a=d.createElement("a"),s.href=r.getAttribute("src"),a.href=t.value,!o.test(a.protocol));else if(a.host===s.host)if(d.activeElement===r)c.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)c.addEventListener("message",c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),d.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),c.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(o);else{o=!0;for(var e,t,r,s=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),a=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),i=d.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),n=0;n<i.length;n++){if(!(r=(t=i[n]).getAttribute("data-secret")))r=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),t.src+="#?secret="+r,t.setAttribute("data-secret",r);if(s||a)(e=t.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),t.parentNode.replaceChild(e,t);t.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:r},"*")}}}}(window,document); </script> [:en]By Felipe Alves Pacheco   Used as a political instrument by the Brazilian Federal Government in response to the popular protests that happened in mid-2013, the Act nº 12.846, of 1st August 2013, entitled as “Anti-Corruption Act”, entry into force on January 29th, 2014, in the midst of polemics, but promising to have an impact in the way that business is made in Brazil. Regarding its immediate nature, the Act intends to attend international agreements assumed by the Brazilian Government, especially the “Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions” of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), finished in Paris in the year 1997. Despite the granted popular name – “Anti-Corruption Act” – the new statute is not restricted to actions concerning corruption, but covers all actions “that threaten the national or international public patrimony, against the principals of the government or against the international agreements assumed by the Brazilian Government.” It is therefore noteworthy that the 5th article of the Act has a wide reach, given that the typical actions in the regulation have a purely illustrative nature, in a way that any actions considered as harmful to the government will be punishable, [...] Chenut Advogados Chenut Advogados