Brazil Country Profile - MLA in Relation to Asset Recovery

Brazil can provide Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) within the context of a treaty or on the basis of reciprocity.
The country can also provide assistance pursuant to requests for direct assistance, whereby the Brazilian authorities present foreign requests directly to Brazilian judges for information requiring judicial authorisation, such as the production of records and lifiting of bank secrecy. The court will review the merits of the requests and authorise the lifitng of secrecy if it conludes that the request is in accordance with Brazilian law.

Between 1999 and 2003 Brazil received 40 MLA requests and 741 letters rogatory.