A Controladoria Geral da União e o combate à corrupção

Abstract

The fight against corruption has been one of the most discussed topics today, in several fields of knowledge beyond the legal sphere. It is a collective action and shared by many, especially when seeking to obtain gains and advantages in an unlawful manner in the fields of public management. Therefore, this research has as main objective, to analyze how the methods used by the CGU can come to restrain, prevent and combat acts that are harmful to the public patrimony and to encourage the practice of social control. For a better understanding of this objective, in the course of the work, we sought to focus on the following specific objectives: to identify the causes that drove corruption, to list the legal and constitutional attributions of CGU; verify, among the listed attributions, which are effectively developed and point out what the corruption prevention actions carried out by CGU. This is a bibliographic research, where the researcher seeks to observe through other materials published in books, articles, monographs, institutional websites, etc., how the CGU works on the problem of corruption in public agencies, according to its attributions and competencies. . In view of the research carried out, it is observed that this is not an easy task to be performed by competent bodies for this function. As much as the CGU is well equipped and supported by the legal norm, since all its actions and attributions are guided by specific laws, by the Brazilian Criminal Law and by the Federal Constitution itself, its actions are required to be in line with the advances in the practice of the phenomenon of corruption itself in Brazil and in the world, due to the various existing tools that facilitate public agents and third parties in the practice of the infraction against the state machine. According to the researcher and according to the opinion of the most diverse renowned authors, consulted for this purpose, the Federal Executive Branch must guarantee its status as an inspection body and carry out new strategic plans in a way that makes it possible to study the mechanisms used by public agents in the practice of acts of administrative impropriety, thus being able to foresee possible actions that may contribute to new actions of this nature and prevent them in time, as a preventive measure, instead of dedicating only to measures to fight corruption itself.