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CGU sanctions

Is this company barred in Brazil?

Search by name, CNPJ or CPF across Brazil's federal integrity registers: CEIS, CNEP, CEAF, CEPIM and leniency agreements, and filter by register, party type and the sanctioning body's state. Free, no login.

Free text matched against every name the register holds for the party.

Exact match. A 14-digit CNPJ, e.g. 12345678000190, or an 11-digit CPF, with no dots, slashes or dashes.

Limit the search to one CGU register or search all of them.

Individual or company.

Two-letter code of the state of the body that applied the sanction, e.g. SP.

Results page number, starting at 1.

Between 1 and 50; 20 by default.

The integrity registers of Brazil's federal government

The Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU) maintains Brazil's federal integrity registers: CEIS, for companies and individuals declared ineligible or suspended from contracting with the State; CNEP, for companies sanctioned under the anti-corruption law; CEAF, for dismissed public servants; CEPIM, for non-profit entities barred from receiving federal funds; and leniency agreements. Each result is one sanction with the party and its document (CPFs come masked), the register, the type of sanction, the start, end and publication dates, the sanctioning body with its state and sphere, the legal basis, the case number, the fine when there is one and the reason. It is the integrity check a bank, a contracting party or a compliance team runs before onboarding a company or person in Brazil. Croma answers from the dataset it keeps up to date with the full source.

  • Search by name or document

    Free text matched against every name the register holds for the party, or an exact CNPJ or CPF; CPFs are returned masked.

  • Filters by register and party

    CEIS, CNEP, CEAF, CEPIM or leniency agreements; individual or company; and the sanctioning body's state.

  • Every sanction in full

    Type of sanction, start, end and publication dates, sanctioning body with state and sphere, legal basis, case, fine and reason.

Common questions

From the Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU), the internal control body of Brazil's federal government that runs CEIS, CNEP, CEAF, CEPIM and the register of leniency agreements. Croma answers from the dataset it keeps up to date with the full source, brought up to date every day, and the as_of field says which date the data corresponds to.

Yes, it is free and needs no account. There is only a cap on searches per hour from the same connection to prevent abuse, and each page returns up to 50 sanctions. For volume, use the Croma API.

That no CGU register holds a sanction under that name or document as of the date in as_of. It is a definitive answer, not an error. Check that the CNPJ has 14 digits with no dots or slashes; if you are searching by name, try fewer words, because the text is matched against every name the register holds for the party.

CEIS gathers the companies and individuals declared ineligible or suspended from contracting with the public administration. CNEP records the companies sanctioned under the anti-corruption law. CEAF lists dismissed federal public servants. CEPIM lists the non-profit entities barred from receiving federal funds. Leniency agreements are a separate register. Each sanction names its own in the list field.

Solutions

Each solution gathers the public records that answer one concrete question: who is this company, is it sanctioned, what cases does it face, what changed in the rules. Try it for free on the page, then take it to your code with a key.

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