FGV’s Rio de Janeiro Law School, in partnership with the British government and the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, will host the ‘International Seminar Brazil – United Kingdom – Anti-Corruption: New Studies and Technologies’, on March 21 and 22. The event will take place at the auditorium of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, in Brasilia.

One of the topics of the event will be the launch of the ‘Institutional Diagnosis: First Steps Towards a National Anti-Corruption Plan,’ project, developed by FGV in partnership with the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, and funded by the Prosperity Fund, of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth. The project was coordinated by professors Michael Mohallem and Carlos Ragazzo, with a multidisciplinary team of researchers, comprising Guilherme France, Isabel Veloso, Ivar Hartmann, Karina Rodriguez, Marina Barros, and Robert Gregory Michener.

Among other things, the project assesses how the UK government, well-known for its experience in the field, designed an anti-corruption plan, identifying strategies to prioritize and implement not only oversight actions, but also advocacy efforts for reducing corruption. The goal of the research is to provide the Brazilian government with different instruments to expand the fight against corruption, affecting the national debates and contributing to efforts to minimize corruption in Brazil.

In the first panel, Michael Mohallem and Carlos Ragazzo, both professors from Rio de Janeiro Law School, will talk about the first steps towards a National Anti-Corruption Plan. The panel will also include Brian Ludlow, from the UK National Crime Agency (NCA). The second panel will focus on the National Anti-Money Laundering System and will feature Antonio Carlos Ferreira de Sousa, from the Financial Activities Control Council (COAF) of the Ministry of Finance, and Sean Mason (NCA).

The event will also include discussions on issues such as transparency, hosted by Marina Barros (Rio de Janeiro Law School) and Karina Rodrigues (Rio de Janeiro Law School), technologies to prevent and support the fight against money laundering, international legal cooperation, and asset recovery. The closing of the seminar will feature success stories from the fight against corruption and money laundering.