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34 statements · 1 politicians · March 3, 2026
Statements by Sérgio Moro. 34 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Legal Certainty, Parliamentary Investigation, Organized Crime, Judiciary.
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Good afternoon everyone. I greet Senator Margareth Buzetti, in the Chair of the session; our colleague Plínio Valério; Senators; Senator Leila, present here.
- Neutral
About: investigate and hold public agents accountable for illicit acts
The basic idea of the rule of law is that no one is above the law.
- For
About: investigate and hold public agents accountable for illicit acts
And, let's be quite frank, if a suspicion eventually arises of the commission of an illicit act in relation to a Deputy, in relation to a Senator, or in relation to an ordinary citizen, that will be investigated.
- Neutral
About: investigate and hold public agents accountable for illicit acts
Institutions exist to ascertain those facts and, in the end, to hold that individual responsible or not.
However, we watched with surprise the events of last week.
- For
About: allow Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions to break bank and tax secrecy
In the CPI (Parliamentary Inquiry Commission) on Organized Crime, of which I am a member, we decreed the lifting of the fiscal and banking secrecy of the company Maridt, because of that company's links with Banco Master, with the basic purpose of ascertaining the facts, either to exonerate those responsible for the company or to deepen those investigations.
- For
About: investigate money-laundering schemes linked to criminal organizations
No one can be above the law. And the CPI on Organized Crime did this because, within Banco Master, there are also relationships and suspicious transactions linked to organized crime, to the PCC, as was widely reported by the press.
- For
About: strengthen the investigative role of Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions
We know, of course, that the Federal Police conducts its investigation, but the CPI (Parliamentary Inquiry Commission) has a special role, because of its visibility and the power it has, to pursue that investigation.
- For
About: strengthen the investigative role of Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions
And it has the competence to do so. If there is a link to organized crime and there are indications that need to be investigated, that measure is justified.
- Neutral
About: suspend bank and tax secrecy breaches by judicial preliminary injunction
However, Senator Plínio Valério, last week, over the weekend, there came an interlocutory decision from the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal), by Minister Gilmar Mendes, preventing, suspending the breaking of banking and fiscal secrecy legitimately decreed by the CPI on Organized Crime.
- For
About: ensure execution of bank and tax secrecy breaches ordered by Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions
We, of course, respect the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal); we know there are Ministers of the STF concerned about this situation, but that was a procedural maneuver to prevent the investigation from following its normal course.
- For
About: file the Senate's appeal against decisions that suspend CPI measures
We hope this House will appeal that decision; we hope it can be reviewed and that the facts can finally be clarified.
- Neutral
About: investigate and hold public agents accountable for illicit acts
There can be no one above the law within the rule of law.
- Neutral
About: investigate and hold public agents accountable for illicit acts
This applies to the Senator, to the Deputy, and to the President of the Republic.
- For
About: investigate and punish abuse of authority by members of the Judiciary
And we have here a history of Parliamentarians and Presidents of the Republic who were investigated, and the same should equally apply to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal).
- For
About: allow Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions to break bank and tax secrecy
This does not place at risk, nor does it threaten the institution, which has existed in our republican system since 1891 — that is, a more-than-century-old institution — which has an important role, as the supreme tribunal, also responsible for judicial control of constitutionality, with its vast competence over the most varied subjects; now, what is impossible to accept is that there is no possibility of carrying out an investigation into well-founded suspicions of illicit acts involving that company Maridt.
- Neutral
About: use the National Congress to investigate irregularities through committees and CPIs
And there, the Congress, the Senate, which is so criticized, fulfilled its role.
- For
About: allow Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions to break bank and tax secrecy
Thus it approved the breaking of fiscal and banking secrecy, and nevertheless, we were now prevented from exercising that power.
- For
About: review the regulatory powers of Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions
I have argued, Senator Plínio Valério, that we also need to review the normative attributions of CPIs (Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions).
- For
About: compel witnesses to attend summonses of Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions
When a CPI summons an individual to testify, whether as a witness or as an investigated person, it is imperative that that person appear, under penalty, after proper service, of being brought in coercively, as occurs in a police inquiry.
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About: compel witnesses to attend summonses of Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions
The investigating officer issues a summons to hear someone, and the CPI has investigative powers similar to those of police authorities — and even powers equivalent to judicial authority in some cases, except in hypotheses of an absolute judicial reserve — however, we have seen a profusion of absences at CPIs, under the pretext of protecting the right to remain silent.
- Ambiguous
About: compel witnesses to attend summonses of Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions
I respect that understanding of part of the Supreme Court, that a person even has the possibility of not appearing, but I do not readily see that as a natural unfolding of the right to remain silent.
- Neutral
About: recognize the right to remain silent in testimonies and inquiries
The right to remain silent means that someone called to testify, in the capacity of an investigated person, or even as a witness, when faced with a question whose answer may be self-incriminating, does indeed have the right to remain silent.
- Neutral
About: recognize the right to remain silent in testimonies and inquiries
It is in our Constitution. It is an achievement that dates back to ancient times, in an affirmation of fundamental freedoms, which can be traced back to precedents prior to the Glorious Revolution in England, in the 17th century.
- For
About: compel witnesses to attend summonses of Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions
Now, simply being absent, ignoring a parliamentary summons, brings discredit to the very institution of the CPI (Parliamentary Inquiry Commission).
- For
About: amend the Constitution to make attendance at summonses of Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions mandatory
I am preparing, Senator Plínio Valério, a proposed constitutional amendment to correct — or rather, to make explicit in the constitutional text — this interpretation, because even in the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) we see that there are ministers who understand that one is obliged to appear, even if one may not answer, and others who understand that appearance itself is optional.
- For
About: review the regulatory powers of Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions
And here I will make it clear: unlike the previous situation, in which I understand there was a procedural maneuver, here there is a legitimate understanding, but we have the need to correct it to place the powers of Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions back in their proper course, which have rendered great service to our country, with all their limitations.
- For
About: avoid politicization of CPIs and maintain an investigative focus
Let us remember the CPI of PC Farias, let us remember the CPI — perhaps the most famous — of the Mensalão, but there is also the old CPI on Organized Crime, the CPI on Pedophilia, several Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions that did important work for the country, even within the sometimes political difficulties that surround the deliberations of these CPIs.
- Neutral
About: investigate diversion of retirees' funds
Now we have the CPMI of the INSS, which has provided an important service to the country by bringing to light this shameful theft from retirees and pensioners.
- For
About: allow Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions to break bank and tax secrecy
Moreover, now, with suspicion even of the involvement of the President's son, the CPI had the courage to decree the lifting of the fiscal and banking secrecy of the President's son.
- For
About: avoid politicization of CPIs and maintain an investigative focus
So we cannot throw away all these achievements and that important institution of the CPI.
- For
About: maintain CPI investigative powers compatible with police authorities when justified
And they must, yes, have the ability and the power to carry out their work, with all their imperfections, with all their difficulties, without claiming absolute power — because they do not have it, because procedural law itself limits what they can do — but without the construction of barriers that are not present in relation to investigations conducted by the police or judicial authorities.
- For
About: allow Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions to break bank and tax secrecy
Where there are indications that justify the breaking of banking and fiscal secrecy — as there were in that specific case of Maridt — it was required, and, on the other hand, with regard to summonses, presence is equally necessary, even while preserving the investigated person's right to remain silent on that occasion.
- For
About: investigate and hold public agents accountable for illicit acts
Once again: no one can be above the law, and the CPIs can have an important role due to their political strength, their legal strength and their very historical prestige, to definitively turn this page in the country, in which there are people who think themselves above the law. (During the speech d
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