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After spending the last year — and the years before — distributing accusations against Brazil, “Transparency International”, which presents itself as an NGO, announces this week that the “perception” that the country is more corrupt has increased.
According to “Transparency”, which admits to being financed by anonymous sources on its own website, “Brazil dropped two points and ten positions in the 2023 Corruption Perception Index (IPC).
The body, which tried to manage the Dallagnol Foundation, formed with money from Petrobras, worth around R$2.5 billion, does not say how it calculated its index. It does not say how many people were heard, where, when or how.
It just says, generally, that the index “is calculated using 13 different data sources, from 12 different institutions, which capture perceptions of corruption” — such sources would be identified in a document that was not released. How “13 data sources” mirror the “perception” of the world, how disclosure induces, is also not explained.
IT, in the role of company; and Bruno Brandão, president of the Brazilian section in the role of negotiator, provided a kind of “mentoring” for the self-dubbed “task force”. They were keeping an eye on part of the fines for denunciations and leniency and, also, on the idea of electing benches of friendly politicians — as demonstrated by the conversations between them.
Minister Ricardo Lewandowski’s order that the 13th Federal Criminal Court and the “task force” explain the role of TI in Odebrecht’s leniency agreement was disobeyed — although reiterated several times. The destination of the money deposited in favor of “lava jet” remains a mystery. Zero transparency.
In an opaque and secret way, IT worked to break up Brazilian companies and then “sell redemption”. At the same time, it arranged for companies belonging to the expelled groups to go into the hands of allies. Part of the money ended up in the coffers of the American and Swiss governments.
The doubts raised in the news, as well as the interpellation made by the STF, were forwarded to the “Transparência” press office and will be published when answered.