Sérgio Moro: No one can be above the law. And the CPI on Organized Crime did this because, within Banco Master, there are also relationships and suspicious transactions linked to organized crime, to the PCC, as was widely reported by the press.
Sérgio Moro: We know, of course, that the Federal Police conducts its investigation, but the CPI (Parliamentary Inquiry Commission) has a special role, because of its visibility and the power it has, to pursue that investigation.
And it has the competence to do so. If there is a link to organized crime and there are indications that need to be investigated, that measure is justified.
Sérgio Moro: However, Senator Plínio Valério, last week, over the weekend, there came an interlocutory decision from the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal), by Minister Gilmar Mendes, preventing, suspending the breaking of banking and fiscal secrecy legitimately decreed by the CPI on Organized Crime.
Sérgio Moro: We, of course, respect the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal); we know there are Ministers of the STF concerned about this situation, but that was a procedural maneuver to prevent the investigation from following its normal course.