Lava Jato and Brazil’s web of accountability institutions

Decoding corruption in Brazilian construction multinationals

“…The key Brazilian federal institutions responsible for anti-corruption efforts are (Aranha, 2020): the Federal Court of Accounts (Tribunal de Contas da União), responsible for conducting audits and imposing administrative penalties (fines, bans) on companies found guilty; the Comptroller General's Office (Controladoria Geral da União), an internal auditing body for the federal government; the Attorney General's Office (Advocacia-Geral da União), which represents and provides legal advice to the federal government; the Federal Prosecution Office (Minist erio P ublico Federal), responsible for investigating and filing charges with the courts; and the Federal Police, in charge of carrying out investigations, conducting searches and arresting suspects. In addition, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), which reports to the Ministry of Justice, ensures free competition because corruption is often associated with collusive practices.…”

Relational legal consciousness and anticorruption: Lava Jato, social media interactions, and the co-production of law's detraction in Brazil (2017–2019)

“…This rational choice framework remained influential as an anticorruption industry was established in the international development domain, gathering international organizations, consultants, think tanks, academics, and policy entrepreneurs to design policy solutions that would make 9 These agents credited the success of LJ to a four-fold strategy (e.g., see video at https://hls.harvard.edu/prosecuting-grand-corruption-inbrazil/). Besides (1) a multi-phased design and (2) transparency, their strategy involved (3) plea deals, a recent feature in Brazilian criminal procedure, through which investigators could learn new facts and start new investigative phases or branches; and (4) cooperation, both domestically-with other agencies of Brazil's "web of accountability" (Aranha, 2020;LaForge, 2017;Power & Taylor, 2011;Praça & Taylor, 2018)-and internationally. 10 A 2017 We Are Social report (https://www.slideshare.net/wearesocialsg/digital-in-2017-south-america) shows that 139 million Brazilians had internet access (66% of the total population) and 122 million used social media (58% of the population).…”

Operação Lava Jato

“…Desde quando foi deflagrada publicamente, nos princípios de 2014, a operação tem sido objeto de pesquisa sob diferentes ênfases: relacionando-a ao desenvolvimento de redes de cooperação interinstitucionais nacionais e internacionais (MARONA; KERCHE, 2021;ARANHA, 2020;CORNELIUS, 2020;CARSON, 2016;ENGELMANN, 2018;ENGELMANN;MENUZZI, 2020), à atuação e desenvolvimento de instituições do sistema de justiça (ARANTES; MOREIRA, 2019; AZEVEDO; PILAU, 2018; KER-CHE; MARONA, 2018;MARONA, 2017), às aproximações da operação com a dinâmica política (LI-MONGI, 2021;LIMA, 2021;ALMEIDA, 2019;FONTAINHA;BRAGA et al, 2018), às suas relações com a mídia e com a opinião pública (BAPTISTA; TELLES, 2018;BAPTISTA, 2017) e à análise e comparação de suas manifestações no Brasil e na América Latina (LAGUNES; SVEJNAR, 2020; GONZALEZ-OCANTOS; HIDALGO, 2019). Há, ainda, obras que buscam, enquanto contemplam diversos desses aspectos, apresentar balanços mais amplos de suas relações com o sistema de controle da corrupção (DA ROS, TAYLOR, 2022; PRADO; MACHADO, 2021) ou de suas repercussões na democracia brasileira (KERCHE; MARONA, 2022;LAGUNES;SVEJNAR, 2020;AVRITZER, 2019;FERES JÚNIOR, 2018).…”