BRAZIL WHISTLEBLOWING UPDATE
May 2nd, 2020
There is, however, much less protection in Latin America. In Brazil, the country’s justice and public security minister Sérgio Moro left the job in April accusing President Jair Bolsonaro of interference with federal police work. By doing so, he effectively became a whistleblower himself, but his suggestions on the topic are far from being the law of the land. The former federal judge who spearheaded the sprawling Car Wash (Lava Jato) corruption probe was drafting an anti-crime bill for presentation to the country’s Congress by May, which could amend 14 ...
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