Brazilian Anti-Corruption Act
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The Brazilian Anti-Corruption Act (Portuguese: Lei anticorrupção), officially Law No. 12,846 of 1 August 2013 and commonly known as the Clean Company Act (Lei da Empresa Limpa), is a Brazilian law enacted in 2013 targeting corrupt practices among legal entities doing business in Brazil. It defines civil and administrative penalties, as well as the possibility of reduction in penalties for cooperation with law enforcement under a written leniency agreement signed and agreed to between the companies and the government.
Brazilian Anti-Corruption Act | |
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National Congress | |
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Citation | PL 6826/2010 |
Territorial extent | Worldwide |
Passed by | Chamber of Deputies |
Passed | 19 June 2013 |
Passed by | Federal Senate |
Passed | 4 July 2013 |
Signed by | President Dilma Rousseff |
Signed | 1 August 2013 |
Commenced | 28 January 2014 |
Legislative history | |
First chamber: Chamber of Deputies | |
Bill title | Law Project 6826/2010 |
Bill citation | PL 6826/2010 |
Introduced by | Executive Power |
Introduced | 18 February 2010 |
First reading | 26 February 2010 |
Second reading | 27 May 2013 |
Second chamber: Federal Senate | |
Bill title | Chamber Law Project 39/2013 |
First reading | 19 June 2013 |
Summary | |
Provides for the administrative and civil liability of legal entities for the practice of acts against the public administration, national or foreign, and makes other provisions. | |
Keywords | |
Anti-corruption, administrative law | |
Status: In force |
The law is directed only at juridical persons which includes corporations and other institutions, but not individuals,[1] who are covered by other laws.
The Act has been invoked numerous times, resulting in leniency agreements returning billions of reals to the Brazilian Treasury, notably the agreement with Odebrecht S.A., which by itself was responsible for twelve billion reals.[2]