The Supreme finally established that the trials promoted by Moro could not have taken place in the Curitiba court headed by the then magistrate, who also, according to that same high court, was not “impartial” in the proceedings against Lula.
A court in Brazil accepted a complaint against the former judge Sergio Moro for the alleged “economic damages” caused to Petrobras by the Lava Jato, investigation that revealed a vast web of corruption in the state oil company.
The decision accepting the claim was issued by the magistrate Charles Renaud this Monday night, published this Tuesday.
It was presented by deputies of the workers party (PT), led by former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who spent 580 days in prison convicted of Moro in the context of Lava Jato.
The complaint maintains that Moro incurred in “conducts that violate public property and administrative morality. This, with severe impacts on the country’s economy and its democratic and institutional stability.”
Lava Jato, which spread through a dozen countries in Latin America and Africa, sentenced a hundred people to prison, including Lula.
Despite this, many of the processes were later annulled by the Supreme Court of Brazil, due to jurisdiction issues.
Those trials, as well as the sentences imposed on Lula, were annulled and had to restart in courts of Brasilia, that in the last year they rejected the complaints and opened the door for the former president to reapply for the Presidency in the elections next October, for which he appears as the maximum favourite.
“Economic damage” to Petrobras in Brazil
The complaint of the PT deputies asks that the Justice force Moro to “compensate” to the Brazilian State for the alleged economic damage caused to Petrobras, although it does not establish a number.
In 2018, Moro resigned from the judiciary and accepted an offer from the far-right Jair Bolsonaro, who won the presidential elections that year, to occupy the Ministry of Justice.
However, he resigned from the Government in April 2020, at odds with the current president, and tried to be a presidential candidate for the elections next October.
The former magistrate came to third place in the polls, with just over 10% of the intention to vote. Despite this, the right-wing political sectors with which he joined ended up discarding his name as a possible candidate for the Presidency.
In a note released this Tuesday, Moro described the PT’s demand as “laughable” and assured that he will defend himself and prove his innocence.
“Everyone knows that what harms the economy is corruption and not the fight against it,” held.