From: CRE Brazil
For seminar participants at Correio Braziliense, better border control and be less tolerant of small crimes is needed.
On Tuesday morning, experts discussed solutions to the illegal trade in the seminar “Brazil we want: Unite for the End of Contraband and Crime”, supported by the Courier.
According to Augusto Nardes, Minister of the Federal Court of Audit (TCU), among the obstacles to curbing this type of crime are the lack of sharing of public safety information and failures in border control. “We do not have information sharing. So internally, we already have a hard time not having an integrated policy. We do not have a national security policy and we also do not have border governance,” the minister said. “We will be ‘drying ice’ (wasting time) in big cities until we fight organized crime at the border,” he added.
Representative Efraim Filho (DEM / PB), president of the Joint Parliamentary Front to Combat Contraband and Counterfeiting, said that the main challenge was not to change the law, but rather the culture of tolerance for small crimes. “Smuggling is extremely harmful because it finances organized crime, deteriorates the formal labor market, and undermines the business environment,” he said.
Without Borders
Earlier, the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Torquato Jardim, stated that the illicit practice has no borders. According to him, smuggling and criminality does not recognize flags and nation, they are “transactional”. The head of the portfolio argued that you have to know the commercial flow of illegal merchandise.
“It has no spontaneous generation. Is it drug trafficking? Is it money laundering? Probably so, but the important thing is that you need to know the funder and the arrival route. You have to strangle and burden the cost benefit of the financier. We have to break the advantage of the wrongdoing,” he said.
Torquato acknowledges that the challenge is to make the fight against practices a priority in the budget. “A public security political fund is needed. It is not spent, it is investment. The return is much greater than the investment in public safety. We must create a permanent national force,” he said.
