Tribunal de Contas da União
It provides assistance to the Congress of Brazil in its Constitutional duty to exercise external audit over the Executive Branch.The TCU employs a highly qualified body of civil servants to prevent, investigate and sanction corruption and malpractice of public funds,[1] with national jurisdiction.The Court was established on November 7, 1890, although its origins can be traced back to the Royal Treasury (Erário Régio), founded in 1808 by King John VI.Today, the TCU works in cooperation with the Comptroller-General of the Union (CGU), which oversees federal executive internal audit.In 2022 the TCU hosted the XXIV INCOSAI, a congress of INTOSAI, International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions.