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Criminal record check (Enhanced)
This check establishes if an individual has a criminal record and provide further analysis of their criminal record history.
What does it check?
This check establishes if an individual has a criminal record and provides further analysis into their criminal record history. Designed to widen the scope of a Brazil basic criminal record search, it combines multi-jurisdiction court queries with a manual legal review. In addition, targeted research is conducted across federal and state judiciary sources (including areas accessible only to accredited attorneys), the Federal Official Gazette (Diário Oficial da União) ecosystem, and other official registers to provide a comprehensive overview of the candidate’s criminal record history. All located cases are also subject to manual review by trained attorneys.
Est. turnaround time
3 - 5 working days
Availability
The service is available for both Brazilian nationals and foreign nationals who hold residence and a CPF (Brazilian taxpayer identification number) or have litigation history in Brazil.
What does it cover?
This product searches Brazil’s criminal-justice system for cases naming the individual across:
- State Courts (Tribunais de Justiça – TJs) and Federal Courts (TRFs) via official procedural portals (PJe/e-SAJ/eproc) and court-issued criminal certificates (e.g., Certidão de Distribuição Criminal, Certidão de Execução Criminal).
- Higher courts (STJ/STF) for precedents and parties involved in criminal matters at superior levels.
- National registers/publications, such as the BNMP (national arrest warrant database)
- Unified Sentencing System (SeeU): Brazil’s unified penal-execution system.
- Manual Deep Investigation: attorney-led searches in logged-in sources and cross-checks against official gazettes/judiciary bulletins (DJe/DOU).
Our legal team manually reviews all located entries to confirm identity matches, interpret procedural status, and summarise outcomes strictly based on official records.
Additional Considerations
- Decentralised records: Criminal matters may fall under state or federal jurisdiction depending on the offence; comprehensive coverage requires queries across multiple courts (TJs, TRFs, STJ/STF) and through different types of official documents.
- Identity resolution: Authorities warn of homonyms and data inconsistencies; providing CPF/ID and RG significantly improves accuracy and reduces false positives.
- Warrants and custody status: Public checks for warrants are performed via the CNJ’s BNMP platform.
- Data protection: The handling of personal data and results complies with Brazil’s LGPD (Law 13.709/2018); only necessary, proportionate data is retained in customer deliverables.
Results
Following collection and manual legal review, results are reported as:
- “No records located” (across sources searched), or
- Case(s) located, with an official summary including case number, court/region, party role, nature of offence, current procedural status/last movement, and links or references to the official case/certificate (where available).
- A legal analysis of the located results is provided.
Did you know?
- Brazil uses a nationally standardised case number (CNJ) across courts, which helps correlate records across different court levels.
- The Federal Police criminal record certificate can be issued and validated online—useful for authenticating documents provided by candidates. However, this certificate alone should not be accepted as proof of no criminal records, as it covers federal level offences only, while most offences are held at state level.
- The Unified Federal Certificate (CJF) consolidates the verification of criminal proceedings across all TRFs into a single issuance.
Data Sources
Federal & State Police