The Department of Assets Recovery and International Legal Cooperation (DRCI), created through Decree No. 4991 of February 18, 2004, is subject to the National Secretariat of Justice (SNJ) of the Ministry of Justice. It is an acronym of the Portuguese name "Departamento de Recuperação de Ativos e Cooperação Jurídica Internacional".
One of the main goals of the Brazilian government in the fight against organized crime is to make the state more efficient in the recovery of assets of ilicit origin. For this was the Departament of Assets Recovery and International Legal Cooperation (DRCI) under the National Secretariat of Justice of the Ministry of Justice.
The DRCI through its Coordination General for Recovery of Assets, plays important role in the activity state of recovery of assets of illicit origin.
In order to make more effective the public actions for the recovery of assets both abroad as in the country, the DRCI is responsible for performing the following activities:
- articulate and cooperate with the police, the prosecutors, the judiciary and the competent bodies to recover, in Brazil and abroad, assets derived from illegal activity;
- implement, as a central authority in the framework of international legal cooperation, stock of the recovery of assets;
- elaborate studies for the development and implementation of mechanisms for the recovery of the instruments and products of crimes, subject of money laundering;
- providing information and knowledge relating to combating money laundering, the identification of crime history and the recovery of assets in Brazil and abroad;
- subsidizing and provide evidence to help the investigation of procedures aimed at the recovery of assets;
- provide grants, where possible, to the management and disposal of assets early.
