Sérgio Moro: In the past wiretapping was highly successful. Today, it is practically already a method that is very difficult to succeed with, given these encryption mechanisms, but infiltrated operations, cooperation agreements (plea bargains), tax investigations, bank account tracing and international legal cooperation are essential to secure successful prosecutions against the bosses.
Sérgio Moro: Once convicted and imprisoned, they must be isolated.
And for that, Brazil already has an effective instrument, which is the federal maximum-security prison system.
Sérgio Moro: The federal maximum-security prisons have stood the acid test.
Sérgio Moro: There have been, historically, unfortunately, two escapes that occurred during this Government, but these are exceptions in an otherwise successful record, in which those taken to federal prisons are isolated, kept in individual cells for most of the time - 22 hours - with only two hours outside the cell for recreation.