The country is still learning to comply

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With these rules without putting its foot down, as it did, for example, in the investigations against the former governor of São Paulo and current federal deputy Paulo Maluf. Brazil requested documents from Switzerland to investigate the crime of corruption, but decided to use them as proof of currency evasion. The disrespect resulted in the suspension of Swiss cooperation with Brazil. “The country receives a document from another for a certain purpose and can only use it for that purpose. You cannot use it for any other purpose.” In an interview with Consultor Jurídica , Antenor Madruga discussed the advantages and precautions that permeate tax amnesties. One of the most respected specialists in asset recovery, the lawyer spoke about the work of tracking embezzled money and bringing it back to the owner, both in the public and private sector.

And he gave a class on combating organized crime. In , Madruga left his -year government job, mainly at the Attorney General's Office, to become a partner at the law firm Barbosa, Müssnich & Aragão Phone Number List Advogados. “I left AGU looking for new challenges. I dedicated years of my career to the government and I think that’s enough.” In these years of public service to which he refers, he headed the AGU in the st Region and was deputy attorney general of the Union. He was also national secretary of Justice and director of the Department of Asset Recovery and International Legal Cooperation of the Ministry of Justice, where he coordinated and implemented the National Strategy for Preventing and Combating Money Laundering and Corruption.



Today, he also works as a UN consultant and professor at the Rio Branco Institute, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Read the interview ConJur — How does cooperation between countries work in the fight against organized crime? Antenor Madruga — Cooperation applies to civil and criminal areas. It is based on the principle of specialty, which is still little known. This principle is best known in extradition. Brazil only extradite someone to another country if the charge against the person being extradited is also considered a crime in Brazil. We will not extradite, for example, someone accused of adultery in Saudi Arabia because adultery is not a crime here.