Sérgio Moro: It is perplexing that, in a case of this magnitude, Senator Girão, the police officers and the police chief responsible were replaced without there being a cause, without a reason that can be publicly stated.
Sérgio Moro: And furthermore, without the Rapporteur of the case before the STF having been consulted.
I draw a parallel with Operation Lava Jato, which was the largest investigation in Brazil's history into corruption, in that case, the theft that was carried out at Petrobras during Lula's previous terms.
Sérgio Moro: If, at that time, any investigator responsible for conducting the investigations or the Federal Police superintendent there in Curitiba had been replaced, there would have been a popular uproar.
Sérgio Moro: And more: I, as the judge of the case, would never allow measures of that sort to be taken, contrary to a necessary cause.