Advocacia-Geral secures auction of property of entity condemned by TCU

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Advocacia-Geral secures auction of property of entity condemned by TCU

Posted: 09/28/2018 – Last updated at: 15:34:10

The Federal Attorney General's Office was able to overturn an injunction that prevented the auction of assets of the Health Organization with Excellence and Citizenship (OSEC), an entity condemned by the Federal Court of Audit (TCU) for not having rendered accounts of public resources received between 1989 and 1992. The auction is scheduled for October 17 and the objective is to use the amount collected from the sale of the goods to compensate the public coffers. The entity received funding from the Ministry of Integration to provide educational assistance services, but never proved the proper allocation of resources. The OSEC tried for many years to evade the obligation to return the money, but the AGU obtained the seizure of assets in the within the scope of an action (the entity responds to dozens) that seeks reimbursement of R $ 900 thousand and the auction was marked. However, the organization obtained an injunction at the Regional Federal Court of the 3rd Region (TRF3) injunction suspending the procedure after alleging that the assets could not be sold because they would be blocked due to another action filed by the Federal Public Ministry. AGU, together with MPF , explained to the judge that the two actions dealt the same damage to the public coffers, so that it would be "a real contradiction to prevent the Union from immediately promoting the same compensation to the purse sought in the action of improbity – which still has no transit in judged – before the formation of another executive title, "as summarized excerpt from the internal grievance filed by the Federal Prosecutor's Office in the 3rd Region, AGU unit that acted in the case. Federal adjudicator Cecília Marcondes welcomed the request for reconsideration of the prosecution and dismissed the suspensive effect of conducting the auction. "Thus, the clear aggravating attempt was made to take advantage of the unavailability decreed in the action of improbity, and whose objective is to safeguard the public interest, as a pretext to protect its own property, misrepresenting the true purpose of the institute," he acknowledged. decision.Ref. 5018816-90.2018.4.03.0000 – TRF3.

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