Online blocking of debtors will migrate from Bacenjud to Sisbajud starting in September.

The National Council of Justice (CNJ), the National Treasury Attorney's Office (PGFN), and the Central Bank (BC) will launch, on August 25th, the Judicial Branch Asset Search System (Sisbajud), a new virtual platform for magistrates from the five branches of the Judiciary to request the online blocking of assets belonging to individuals with debts recognized by the courts. The implementation schedule includes the migration of data from Bacenjud, which has enabled these collection operations since the 2000s, and the automation of Sisbajud within the Electronic Judicial Process (PJe).

The new system, which will be launched soon, began development last year as part of an agreement between the CNJ (National Council of Justice), BC (Central Bank of Brazil), and PGFN (Attorney General's Office for the National Treasury) to improve the tracking of debtors' assets and the virtual seizure of funds. Over the years, Bacenjud has become an important technological tool for judges to order the tracking and blocking of assets belonging to individuals with debts recognized by the courts.

The importance of online asset seizure is demonstrated by the numbers. Last year alone, the amount of funds frozen for creditor payments through the Bacenjud system totaled R$ 55.9 billion, in compliance with 18 million court orders. Of the total amount frozen in debtors' accounts, R$ 31.2 billion became judicial deposits for payment to creditors.

Preparation schedule

According to the auxiliary judges of the Presidency of the CNJ (National Council of Justice), Dayse Starling and Adriano da Silva, who are part of the development team for the new system, the replacement of Bacenjud with Sisbajud will take place between August 24th, with the preparation of both systems for the change, and September 7th.

Following the official launch by the CNJ (National Council of Justice), Central Bank, and PGFN (Attorney General's Office of the National Treasury) on August 25th, the transition phase will begin, opening a period for courts to make the necessary adjustments to the new system, thus avoiding disruption in asset tracking and asset freeze requests.

After the necessary adaptations are made to ensure that the courts have full access to the new system, Bacenjud will be deactivated on Friday, September 4th. On September 5th, 6th, and 7th, data migration between the two systems will take place, so that from September 8th onwards, Sisbajud will be fully operational and Bacenjud will be inactive.

Greater speed

With the replacement of Bacenjud by Sisbajud, magistrates will have access to a more technologically up-to-date system with a faster and more efficient response capacity. In the current phase of improvements, Sisbajud will contain two modules: one for lifting bank secrecy and another for requesting information about debtors from financial institutions and online asset seizure.

In the online garnishment module, the procedures for blocking debtors' assets will remain the same as those applied to Bacenjud. Similarly to what currently occurs with Bacenjud, Sisbajud was structured to operate in an integrated manner with the Electronic Judicial Process (PJe), an electronic platform sponsored by the CNJ for the virtual processing of judicial cases. Furthermore, Sisbajud was designed to also be accessible to courts that do not use PJe, through a web interface, as well as, for courts that so desire, through integration via an API (Application Programming Interface) specifically developed for this purpose (with information from journalist Luciana Otoni/CNJ News Agency).