THE ROLE OF BRAZILIAN NOTARIES AND REGISTRARS IN COMBATING AND PREVENTING CRIMES OF CORRUPTION, MONEY LAUNDERING AND TERRORIST FINANCING

Abstract

In this scientific article, the provision brought by Provision number 161/2024, of 03/11/2024, will be analyzed, with updates that are part of Provision number 149/2023, whose normative basis originated in Provision number 88/2019, all of the National Council of Justice – CNJ, originating and updating the obligations of Notaries and Registrars to carry out communications to the Financial Intelligence Unit – UIF,  through the Financial Activities Control System – SISCOAF. Thus, Notaries and Registrars play an important role in combating and preventing, by reporting operations that may be considered suspicious of money laundering or terrorist financing, doing so, after prior assessment of the existence of suspicion in the operations or proposals for operations of their clients. The essential activity of Notaries and Registrars, their concepts and characteristics, as well as the repercussions of the changes in the internal procedures of the services for the implementation and updating of internal policies and controls for the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing will be correlated. It will also analyze the consequences and legal effects of the implementation and updating of these new guidelines, in which the existing apparatus in the Notarial and Registry Services is used, for the collection and processing of information, essentially regarding the effectiveness of the performance of this role by Brazilian Notaries and Registrars.