By Ordinance No. 551/16/PR President of the Brazilian Bar Association, Section of São Paulo, Dr Marcos da Costa, appointed the attorney Luis Fernando Diegues Cardieri, responsible for Corporate Criminal Law area of Montgomery & Associates, to integrate, as member, the Special Commission for the Study of Criminal Compliance.
With the enactment of Law No. 12,846 / 2013, entitled “Anti-Corruption Law” or “Compliance Act”, the scope of the compliance programs reached different spheres of business activity, from preventive issues regarding the environment, consumer protection, preventive behaviors offenses relating to economic, tax, financial and even regulatory frameworks for the exercise of professional activities.
The process of compliance programs is guided by preventive purpose, by programming a series of behaviors that reduce the risk of business activity, and are based on ethical principles, rules of conduct, regulations, procedures and internal controls, generating mechanisms Protection punishable risks, including the criminal area.
In the current national scenario, companies seeking to conduct themselves in an appropriate manner in competitive terms, or to seek to avoid legally, they should seek the appropriate criminal protection.
The Commission will examine the specific legislation of the sector in light of this new labor market. Its members are professionals with extensive experience in the criminal area, comprising large offices in São Paulo and discuss the improvement of legislation on the subject and observe the applicability of laws in practice.