Sérgio Moro: And Delegado KIQ would have then, in that episode, indicated that he was a thief, someone who had committed crimes.
Sérgio Moro: We can discuss that fact, but let us acknowledge here that there was a conviction in three instances of President Lula.
Later, the convictions were annulled; we do not dispute that point, but an annulment on merely formal grounds, with which I myself respectfully disagree — I understand that, at bottom, there was indeed an annulment for political reasons.
Sérgio Moro: But, as a result of that episode, in which... Incidentally, former President Lula was never declared innocent by the courts.
Sérgio Moro: But, as a result of that episode, Delegado KIQ was charged with the crime of electoral defamation by the Public Prosecutor's Office there in the State of Paraná, and he defended himself in court, first by challenging the very facts narrated in the indictment, but also by mounting a vehement defense of freedom of expression.