( September 29, 2023, 19:35 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Brazilian anticorruption authority has imposed fines totaling 7.9 million reais ($1.57 million) on five companies. Tratenge Engenharia was fined 7.55 million reais ($1.5 million), while Santa Bárbara was banned from contracting with the government, for rigging bids at a federal university. Transport firm Metra has agreed to pay 90,882 reais to settle a probe involving a fraud scheme in compensation and refund of federal tax credits. The companies Mago Automação Industria e Comercio and Sainte Marie agreed to pay 23,755 and 246,351 reais, respectively, to settle a corruption probe in the context of the Operation Spy, aimed at scrutinizing the sale of data extracted from Brazil's Federal Revenue systems.CGU press release follows in Portuguese:...
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