State of Rio de Janeiro alters the Regulatory Decree of the Anticorruption Law
On October 15, 2019, State Decree No. 46,788/2019, which changes State Decree No. 46,366/2018 that regulates the Anti-Corruption Law at the state level was published in the State Official Gazette.
The new decree provides more efficiency to the government on the assessment of violations to the AntiCorruption Law.
One of the new aspects brought by the new decree is the possibility for the State Comptroller General to exercise jurisdiction to conduct the administrative proceeding (PAR) and/or the preliminary investigation in case the Comptroller General and the authority of the harmed public entity had initiated the proceedings but the authority had not informed the Comptroller General of this fact.
Another new aspect brought by the decree is that the committees responsible for the PAR and the preliminary investigation proceeding can now be formed by only two members and no longer by three members