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, an autonomous agency in charge of

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and the defense of society in general. The Prosecutor General heads a group of independent

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('), who work to investigate and prosecute criminal, labor, and civil offenses committed against society. It is a position appointed by the President of the Republic and the nomination must be approved by the Federal Senate.

Augusto Aras Antônio Augusto Brandão de Aras (born 4 December 1958) is a Brazilian attorney, former sub-Prosecutor-General of Brazil, professor in the Law School of University of Brasília (UnB) and current Prosecutor General of Brazil. He is Bachelor of L ...

has been the Prosecutor General of Brazil since 26 September 2019.

List of Prosecutors General

* José Júlio de Albuquerque Barros (1891-1893) * Ovídio Fernandes Trigo de Loureiro (1894) * Antônio de Sousa Martins (1894-1896) * Lúcio de Mendonça (1897) * Joaquim Antunes de Figueiredo Júnior (1897) * João Pedro Belfort Vieira * Antônio Augusto Ribeiro de Almeida *

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(1902-1905) * Pedro Antônio de Oliveira Ribeiro * Joaquim Xavier Guimarães Natal * Antônio Augusto Cardoso de Castro *

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(1936-1945) *

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* Themístocles Brandão Cavalcanti *

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Plínio de Freitas Travassos Plinio may refer to: *Pliny, in Italian ** Pliny the Elder (c. 23 – 79) ** Pliny the Younger (61 – c. 113) *Ulmus 'Plinio', an elm cultivar named after Pliny * Plínio (footballer, born 1946) José Plínio de Godoy (born 3 February 1946), ...

Carlos Medeiros Silva Carlos may refer to: Places ;Canada * Carlos, Alberta, a locality ;United States * Carlos, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Carlos, Maryland, a place in Allegany County * Carlos, Minnesota, a small city * Carlos, West Virginia ;Elsewhere ...

* Cândido de Oliveira Neto * Joaquim Canuto Mendes de Almeida * Evandro Cavalcanti Lins e Silva * Cândido de Oliveira Neto (1963-1964) * Oswaldo Trigueiro de Albuquerque Mello (1964-1965) * Alcino Salazar (1965-1967) * Haroldo Teixeira Valladão (1967) * Décio Meirelles de Miranda (1967-1969) *

Francisco Manuel Xavier de Albuquerque Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Nicknames In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father of ...

(1969-1972) * José Carlos Moreira Alves (1972-1975) * Henrique Fonseca de Araújo (1975-1979) * Firmino Ferreira Paz (1979-1981) * Inocêncio Mártires Coelho (1981-1985) *

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(1985-1989) * Aristides Junqueira (June 1989 – 1995) * Geraldo Brindeiro (June 1995-June 2003) * Claudio Fonteles (June 2003-June 2005) * Antonio Fernado de Souza (June 2005-July 2009) * Roberto Gurgel (July 2009-September 2013) *

Rodrigo Janot Rodrigo Janot Monteiro de Barros (born September 15, 1956, Belo Horizonte) is a Brazilian jurist who served as the Prosecutor General of the Republic from 2013 to 2017. Career Rodrigo Janot graduated with an undergraduate degree in law from t ...

(September 2013-September 2017) *

Raquel Dodge Raquel Elias Ferreira Dodge (born 26 July 1961) is a former Prosecutor General of Brazil. Previously, she was a sub-prosecutor general of the Republic and served as the Prosecutor General of the Republic from 2017 to 2019. Biography Dodge was b ...

(September 2017-September 2019) *

(26 September 2019 – present)

References

External links

Official website of the Brazilian Prosecutor General's Office
* Brazilian criminal law Government ministries of Brazil

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List of Prosecutors General

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