Politics · Brazil · 2 hrs ago
Transparency group renews complaint over AGU payment data
Transparency Brasil has filed a new complaint with Brazil’s Office of the Comptroller General over the Attorney General’s Office, known as the AGU.
The dispute concerns success fees paid to AGU staff, which totalled more than 12.7 billion reais from 2020 to 2025.
A decision ordered the AGU to provide a detailed breakdown of the payments, and the comptroller gave it 30 days to do so.
The AGU says it had technical difficulties extracting the data and sent the dataset to the comptroller so it could be made public.
The comptroller says the information must be sent to the person who requested it, rather than to the comptroller.
Transparency Brasil says the AGU’s existing online dashboard shows only combined amounts, making individual payments hard to identify.
The AGU says it followed the comptroller’s guidance and that the data will be made public while personal information is protected.
Transparency Brasil has filed a new complaint with Brazil’s Comptroller General’s Office over the Attorney General’s Office not providing requested payment data.
The data concern success fees paid to AGU employees, with payments totaling more than R$12.7 billion from 2020 to 2025.
The Comptroller General’s Office had given the AGU 30 days to provide the data to the requester.
The AGU said it sent the data to the Comptroller General’s Office after facing technical difficulties, and that public access depends on electronic tools being put in place.
Transparency Brasil says the data currently available are aggregated and do not allow individual payments to be identified.
- Who
- Transparency Brasil filed the complaint against Brazil’s Attorney General’s Office (AGU).
- What
- The complaint concerns the AGU’s failure to provide data on success fees paid to its employees.
- When
- The complaint was reported on October 11, 2026. The AGU sent its response on Friday the 9th, after the deadline.
- Where
- The complaint was filed with Brazil’s Comptroller General’s Office (CGU).
- Why
- Transparency Brasil says the AGU has not provided the requested information as required, while the AGU says it sent the data to the CGU to ensure public access under technical guidance.
Transparency Brasil
Attorney General’s Office (AGU)
Access to data
Transparency Brasil
The data must be provided to the requester, and a possible future transparency tool is not a reason to withhold it.
Attorney General’s Office (AGU)
The AGU says it fulfilled the order by sending the database to the CGU for public presentation under technical guidance.
Current disclosure
Transparency Brasil
The available data are aggregated and do not identify individual payments.
Attorney General’s Office (AGU)
The AGU says it already provides a panel with the data and says public access should preserve personal information.
Any development and future publication of a hypothetical tool that enables the requested information to be viewed through active transparency is not sufficient grounds for the agency to refuse to provide the requested information immediately
Thus, the AGU followed the CGU’s guidance to ensure public access to the data, with transparency, while preserving personal information
the decision remains in force and the data must be sent to whoever requested them and not to the agency, as the Access to Information Law stipulates
The CGU gave the AGU 30 days to make the data available.
The AGU sent its response after the CGU’s deadline, saying it had faced technical difficulties extracting the data.
Folha reported that Transparency Brasil had filed a new complaint with the CGU.
- Total payments
- More than R$12.7 billion
- Payment period
- 2020–2025
- Deadline set by CGU
- 30 days
- Complaint filed with
- Comptroller General’s Office (CGU)
Sources
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