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| Formed | 8 March 1694; 331 years ago (1694-03-08) byD. Pedro II ofPortugal |
| Headquarters | Rua René Bittencourt, 371,Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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| Website | www.casadamoeda.gov.br |
TheCasa da Moeda do Brasil is theBrazilianmint, owned by the Brazilian government and administratively subordinated to the Ministry of Finances.[1] It was established in 1694.[2] Its current headquarters and industrial facilities occupy a modern plant with 110,000 square metres (1.2 million square feet) inRio de Janeiro's western suburb ofSanta Cruz.[3]
It produceslegal tendercoins andbanknotes. It also producesmedals and security prints (i.e.,passports, subway tokens,postage stamps) that are used and issued by government-run service providers. Having the highest technology and production capacity in South America, until the 1980s it also produced coins, banknotes and passports for severalSouth American andAfrican countries that lacked a similar facility. It is now aiming to return to the foreign market.[4]
The Brazilian Mint - CMB is a non-dependent public corporation, incorporated under Law No. 5.895, dated June 19, 1973, linked to the Ministry of Finance, with legal personality under private law, and its capital is wholly owned To the Union. It has as its main activity, on an exclusive basis, the manufacture of paper money, metallic money and the printing of postage stamps, federal tax and federal government debt, as well as the production of Brazilian passports.
Fundada en 1694, en la Casa de la Moneda se imprimen los billetes y monedas del real brasileño, así como pasaportes, sellos y diplomas; institución que, hasta el momento, respondía al Ministerio de Hacienda
Um novo complexo industrial, que hoje representa um dos maiores do gênero no mundo, foi especificamente projetado, construído e inaugurado em 1984, no Distrito Industrial de Santa Cruz, Zona Oeste do Rio de Janeiro. Essas modernas instalações ocupam cerca de 110.000 metros quadrados de área construída, em uma área de terreno de cerca de 500.000 metros quadrados.
Former SICPA Executive Vice President Charles Nelson Finkel was found guilty of the bribery charges. Finkel, who has American and Brazilian citizenship, paid $14.5 million in bribes to a fiscal auditor in order to secure Sicpa a contract worth more than $1 billion with the Brazilian Mint between 2010 and 2015.
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