The minister, of the (Supreme Federal Court), said on Saturday (12) that he is proud to have participated in the “breakdown of” and again said that the investigation conducted in Curitiba was a “criminal organization”.
Mendes made this statement at Brazil Conference, an event organized by Brazilian students from the American universities of Harvard and MIT.
The expression “breakdown” was used by the interviewer, one of the organizers of the event, and then referenced by the minister.
Gilmar was asked about the former judge’s suspicion proceedings and if there was finally a break from Lava Jato. In response, he stated that he began to suspect abuses by investigators and that they were later proven by the call.
“I realized that there were exaggerations, that we were keeping the arrests preventive and we were only doing the liberation after they did allegations,” the minister said.
The investigations to which the Minister referred show private messages from Lava Jato authorities intercepted by a hacker and obtained in 2019 through The Intercept Brazil exposed voluntarisms and controversial attitudes, highlighting the collaboration between judge and investigators, which is illegal.
“I saw that that moment was decisive and I said that it was going to go wrong.” “I am proud of this process you called Lava Jato’s breakdown. Because it was a criminal organization. What they were doing in Curitiba was a criminal,” he said.
The magistrate was later asked about the argument of pockets, who advocate the removal of Moraes from the investigation about Fake News and Bolsonaro, claiming that he. Once again, Gilmar said there was no reason for the suspicion of the STF colleague.
For Gilmar, Minister Alexandre de Moraes was attacked because he became rapporteur of the fake news inquiry and this is one of the reasons why he should not be removed from the process, as Bolsonaro asks.
“He has already been made rapporteur of the process and has been assaulted. It would be very easy for any investigated to ward off the judge in the face of imprisonment. That’s what he takes care of,” said Gilmar. “He is not suspicious, is not prevented, he is not judging his interests. He can not even compare Alexander with Moro. I live in fact to be associated with Bolsonaro,” he says.
The magistrate also commented that he once told the former president that he had “agreed to hire Moro to be Minister of Justice and then return him to nothingness.”
The minister also defended the Supreme Court of activism and the role of the court in recent actions, including those who aim at the former president. The magistrate stated that the court acts within the Constitution.
“If there has been activism, this stems from the Constitution, from our constitutional model, and this stems, in my view, for good.”
The minister’s trip to the United States occurs in front of one, in search of sanctions to STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes.
Boconists who participate in the strategy also asked the US government members sanctions against Gilmar for seeing it as a kind of accomplice to what they report to be violations of Moraes’s freedom of expression.
This is the 11th edition of the event, organized by Brazilian Harvard students. The Supreme Court was represented by its president, Luis Roberto Barroso.
