Sérgio Moro: As if that were not enough, yesterday we were all surprised by the news of a billion-dollar cut to the budget of our Armed Forces, which will have the practical effect of leaving the control and prevention they carry out at our borders undermanned.
Sérgio Moro: Organized crime, although it has a wide diversification of activities, still has, among them and particularly profitable, drug trafficking and arms trafficking—smuggling and "descaminho" (customs duty evasion); they are sources of wealth, illegal markets controlled by those criminal organizations.
When the Federal Government, in order to make the necessary adjustment to public accounts, cuts precisely in the area of border control, it sends a message—a new negative message—to the criminal world; that is, either we change this course of events, or we replace this Federal Government, or we will see, increasingly, the escalation of organized crime in our country.
Sérgio Moro: But when international actions arise, when international measures are taken that facilitate our work and hinder the activities of those criminal organizations, we must praise them, we must endorse them and use that designation so that we can reinforce here our investigative and repressive activities against those criminal organizations.
Sérgio Moro: That is what we intend to do, for example, within our project in the State of Paraná.