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Where?
by authority- Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU) €1.4m 100 % · 1 case
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- Anonymised companies €1.4m 100 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | €1.4m |
| 2025 | 0 | – |
| 2026 | 0 | – |
1 case
18 Jun 2024 a Brazilian retailer, its holding company and two cultural project sponsorsRetailer and others: BRL 8.14m CGU fines over misused Rouanet cultural funding €1.4m
The CGU imposed fines totalling BRL 8,143,459.20 on a Brazilian retailer (BRL 4,386,459.20) and the group's jointly liable holding company (BRL 930,000.00) because, through an intermediary company, they had appropriated public funds stemming from tax relief (Art. 5 III Lei 12.846/2013), and on two project sponsors (BRL 1,297,000.00, Art. 5 II Lei 12.846/2013, and BRL 1,530,000.00 respectively); all four also breached the Lei Rouanet (Lei 8.313/1991, cultural incentive law), and three of them must additionally publish the decision by way of extraordinary publication. According to the final report, funded cultural projects (Pronacs) were diverted to produce books as marketing material for the retailer; a natural person was additionally fined BRL 500,000.00. On 30 September 2025 the CGU credited payments made by the retailer under a civil non-prosecution agreement (BRL 3,071,819.19 remaining) and rejected the requests of the holding company and the first project sponsor.
Sponsorship backed by state tax incentives must not include benefits for the sponsor's own marketing – otherwise both sponsor and project sponsor face fines.
Benefits in return for tax-incentivised cultural sponsorship
- Authority / court
- Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU)
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption
- Legal basis
- Lei 12.846/2013, Art. 5 II und III, Art. 6 I und II; Lei 8.313/1991 (Lei Rouanet), Art. 2 §§ 1 und 2, Art. 23 § 1, Art. 38; Decreto 11.129/2022
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Mitigating circumstances
- Payments made by the retailer under a civil non-prosecution agreement (ANPC) on the same facts were credited against its fine.
- Published
- 21 Jun 2024
Original amount 8,143,459.2 BRL, converted at the ECB reference rate of 18 Jun 2024.
- Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU), Veröffentlichung der Behörde (Entscheidung 2024) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 7 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 18 Jun 2026 · Direct link