Sérgio Moro: In addition to identifying and arresting these leaders, we need confiscation, we need forfeiture of the assets of these criminal organizations, and we already have, in the legislation, several instruments available to carry this out, such as precautionary patrimonial measures, like asset freezes, asset seizures, asset attachments...
Sérgio Moro: But I highlight here, in particular: in 2019 we approved, in the Anti-Drug Law, the so-called extended confiscation, which is an institute brought from comparative law that allows...
Once it is identified that a confiscated individual has ties to organized crime, that he acted and committed serious drug trafficking crimes or crimes related - in the Anti-Drug Law - to organized crime, this legislation allows that all of his assets that are not compatible with his proven lawful income be subject to confiscation.
Sérgio Moro: In other words: for those individuals who chose to live in the world of crime to sustain a criminal lifestyle, there are now instruments capable of a generalized confiscation of their assets that are not demonstrably of lawful origin.
Sérgio Moro: It is an institute of comparative law: the United Kingdom, Portugal, all European countries adopt similar rules.