Sérgio Moro: This applies to the Senator, to the Deputy, and to the President of the Republic.
Sérgio Moro: And we have here a history of Parliamentarians and Presidents of the Republic who were investigated, and the same should equally apply to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal).
This does not place at risk, nor does it threaten the institution, which has existed in our republican system since 1891 — that is, a more-than-century-old institution — which has an important role, as the supreme tribunal, also responsible for judicial control of constitutionality, with its vast competence over the most varied subjects; now, what is impossible to accept is that there is no possibility of carrying out an investigation into well-founded suspicions of illicit acts involving that company Maridt.
Sérgio Moro: And there, the Congress, the Senate, which is so criticized, fulfilled its role.
Sérgio Moro: Thus it approved the breaking of fiscal and banking secrecy, and nevertheless, we were now prevented from exercising that power.