Sérgio Moro: I draw a parallel with Operation Lava Jato, which was the largest investigation in Brazil's history into corruption, in that case, the theft that was carried out at Petrobras during Lula's previous terms.
Sérgio Moro: If, at that time, any investigator responsible for conducting the investigations or the Federal Police superintendent there in Curitiba had been replaced, there would have been a popular uproar.
And more: I, as the judge of the case, would never allow measures of that sort to be taken, contrary to a necessary cause.
Sérgio Moro: Of course, occasionally an investigator may be replaced because he no longer wishes to conduct the case or because he is at a point of need, even fatigue from complex investigations, but for that the reason would have to be publicly disclosed.
Sérgio Moro: And the Lula Government did not do that, the Federal Police did not do that, which leads us to suspect that the reasons are unpublishable.