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24 statements · 1 politicians · May 20, 2026
Statements by Sérgio Moro. 24 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Combating Impunity.
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About: combat corruption and the buying of parliamentary support
Senators, both male and female, good afternoon to everyone. Brazil, without a shadow of a doubt, has regressed in recent years with respect to the prevention of and fight against corruption.
- Neutral
About: combat corruption and the buying of parliamentary support
We had a period, Senator Girão, in which we were making progress during Operation Lava Jato – and that came in the wake of years of evolution, both in legislation and equally in the expertise of the institutions charged with the prevention of and fight against corruption.
- Neutral
About: combat corruption and the buying of parliamentary support
But there was a moment of hope that Brazil would become a less corrupt country and, with that, even have greater potential for its own economic development.
- Neutral
About: combat corruption and the buying of parliamentary support
I even spoke, Senator Kajuru, with several companies, whether national or international, at the time, who told me: "Look, the fight against corruption is opening Brazil up to investment, because we want predictability, because we want legal certainty, because we want to enter into a fair competition and not into a rigged game," which is crony capitalism, the byproduct of systemic corruption.
- Neutral
About: combat corruption and the buying of parliamentary support
Nevertheless, the overall picture and the scenario changed.
- Neutral
About: combat corruption and the buying of parliamentary support
There was a political turnaround and, because of that turnaround, many who had been convicted, many who had been imprisoned, who had been held responsible, with abundant evidence...
- Neutral
About: arrest and hold those involved in corruption accountable
No one denies that the theft from Petrobras occurred, for example.
- Neutral
About: arrest and hold those involved in corruption accountable
Petrobras itself reported that it received back R$6 billion as a result of Operation Lava Jato.
- Neutral
About: arrest and hold those involved in corruption accountable
No one denies, for example, that the State of Rio de Janeiro was pillaged, robbed and plundered by people like Sérgio Cabral, but the political turnaround led to the successive annulment of several of those convictions and imprisonments.
- For
About: arrest and hold those involved in corruption accountable
Because they were innocent? No, because they were guilty. In truth, there was no way to declare innocence, because the evidence was overwhelming.
- Neutral
About: arrest and hold those involved in corruption accountable
In all those cases there was always very solid documentary and testimonial evidence and only, there, a small part resulting, in fact, from the statements of other criminals.
- For
About: arrest and hold those involved in corruption accountable
The evidence was abundant and, because of that, they needed to return home; a subterfuge had to be found to restore the tradition of impunity – and impunity is always the twin sister of corruption.
- Neutral
About: combat corruption and the buying of parliamentary support
The cherry on top of that political turnaround, if one may use that expression, was Lula's return to the Presidency of the Republic.
- Neutral
About: combat corruption and the buying of parliamentary support
And what happens when you put in the Presidency of the Republic someone who was imprisoned, who was convicted and was released...
- For
About: arrest and hold those involved in corruption accountable
Not because he was innocent, because no one declared that, no court had the courage to declare that he was innocent, but rather they annulled the convictions on grounds of formalities that would have been violated, of technicalities – with which we do not agree.
- Neutral
About: combat corruption and the buying of parliamentary support
Deep down, we understand that the real reason was the political turnaround and the return of the tradition of impunity.
- Neutral
About: combat corruption and the buying of parliamentary support
By doing that, they opened the gates of hell, and recurring figures from the crime pages began to return, including the President's own son.
- Neutral
About: arrest and hold those involved in corruption accountable
I read a little while ago in Metrópoles that Roberta Luchsinger, who would also be a friend of Lulinha, gave testimony at the Federal Police regarding suspicions of his involvement in the INSS scandal and, basically, the allegations are that the 'Careca do INSS', the so-called Antônio Antunes, a sad figure in Brazilian history for being centrally involved in the theft from retirees and pensioners, would be a mere friend of Lulinha.
- Neutral
About: arrest and hold those involved in corruption accountable
They would have met, Senator Plínio Valério, in a social context, that is, it was just a friendship without greater consequences, if not for the estimated theft of R$6 billion from pensions and benefits.
- For
About: combat corruption and the buying of parliamentary support
But beyond the discouragement of regression, what we need to do is resume the anti-corruption agenda.
- For
About: combat corruption and the buying of parliamentary support
It is an urgent agenda for the country. First, because it is good for the economy: combating corruption increases economic efficiency, reduces crony capitalism, and promotes fair competition among companies.
- For
About: combat corruption and the buying of parliamentary support
Second: combating corruption is good for the public coffers.
- For
About: combat corruption and the buying of parliamentary support
It is more money for education; more money for health; more money that the State has at its disposal for the well-being of the people.
- For
About: combat corruption and the buying of parliamentary support
Third: it is important for our morals. Nothing worse today in Brazil than morality destroyed, morality on the floor, because the backbone of the country's ethics has been affected by these annulments and by the return of thievery, whether in the theft from the INSS or in the scandal — mega-scandal — of Banco Master, involving
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