A delação premiada como mecanismo de combate à corrupção política

Abstract

The corruption phenomenon is rooted in the Brazilian society, occurring during its entire history, but it has been receiving special attention, including international organizations, in the last years. In face of grand public resources deviation schemes, like the "Mensalão" and "Lava Jato", countries are converging efforts and adopting several measures to combat effectively this practice that undermines the democratic state of law, for example to procedural institute known as plea bargaining, a criminal awarded tipoff. As a way of gathering evidence that it is, it enables access to privileged information offered by the criminals themselves, helping investigations and providing the dismantling of criminal organizations. Therefore, the present work aims to analyze the importance of Plea Bargaining to fight political corruption, examining your procedural aspects and the several corruption cases in Brazil, especially those that the institute was used.