Sérgio Moro: 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.
Thus it approved the breaking of fiscal and banking secrecy, and nevertheless, we were now prevented from exercising that power.
Sérgio Moro: I have argued, Senator Plínio Valério, that we also need to review the normative attributions of CPIs (Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions).
Sérgio Moro: When a CPI summons an individual to testify, whether as a witness or as an investigated person, it is imperative that that person appear, under penalty, after proper service, of being brought in coercively, as occurs in a police inquiry.