Sérgio Moro: Just as it, in a certain way, also influenced those decisions to annul the convictions in Operation Lava Jato.
Sérgio Moro: All of this, in fact, is connected. While there is an effort to dismantle the preventive and repressive apparatus against corruption, there is likewise an effort to annul past convictions without any legal justification, merely by a spurious attempt to reconstruct history.
And, at the same time, there is an effort to prevent those facts that were now uncovered by the Federal Police — which, in this case, we must praise, since powerful people were found to be involved in this scandal — but who, nevertheless, are now, more or less, hamstrung...
Sérgio Moro: (Bell rings.) ...to carry out this investigation.
Sérgio Moro: And, alongside that, there is this apparatus of censorship, because it is not enough to prevent corruption from happening again, it is not enough to erase the corruption of the past: it is necessary to prevent people from speaking about this matter.