Anyone who goes to the auditorium at the headquarters in Brasília is surprised to see that the place was not named after a PF delegate but after a lawyer.
The fact that the place was named after the criminalist, Minister of Justice from 2003 to the beginning of 2007, gives a dimension of its importance for the corporation.
The law as it is known today is the result of the changes promoted by Bastos, when he was head of Justice and by his chosen one to head the body, the , in the first presidential term of (PT) in the 2000s.
The recently released book “The Minister who Changed Justice: Márcio Thomaz Bastos” features a chapter written by Lacerda in which the delegate tells behind the scenes of how the PF stopped being a police force marked by political subservience, scrapping, cases of internal corruption and even torture to become a success story of reformulation in the federal administration.
Averse to interviews, Lacerda says in the book, for example, that before his administration, investigations into the fight against drugs in Brazil had material and financial support from the Embassy and that, upon taking over as director of the PF, he found that there was no legal support. for such a situation, which led to contributions being interrupted.
The work published by the publisher Civilização Brasileira brings a collection of articles written by Bastos’ friends and legal professionals who worked with him.
The book in honor of the criminalist brings the perspective of those who worked to bring about important changes in the country’s Justice system, led by or who had great influence from the lawyer.
Journalist Mario Cesar Carvalho, one of the organizers of the work, outlines in the first chapter an overview of Bastos’ trajectory, whose achievements are detailed in the following texts with data and affective memory.
The book provides a history of the lawyer’s efforts to create the external control body of the country’s Judiciary, which would only be installed in 2005 under the name .
Two of the 11 chapters of the work deal with this topic, one written by lawyers Pierpaolo Cruz Bottini, Sérgio Renault and Beto Vasconcelos and the other by Luis Felipe Salomão’s minister.
Bastos’ work in combating anti-competitive practices, especially the strengthening of , is remembered in a text by lawyer Arthur Sanchez Badin.
The creation of the DRCI (Department of Asset Recovery and International Legal Cooperation) and the Enccla discussion forum (National Strategy for Combating Corruption and Money Laundering) and other measures to increase the effectiveness of action against money laundering is the subject of the chapter prepared by lawyer Antenor Pereira Madruga Filho and Union lawyer Carolina Yumi de Souza.
The task of criminalists Antonio Cláudio Mariz de Oliveira, Dora Cavalcanti and Augusto de Arruda Botelho was to address more specifically his career as a criminalist, former president of the national and São Paulo and founder of the IDDD (Institute for the Defense of the Right to Defense).
Bastos’ former advisors, lawyers Marcelo Behar and Pedro Abramovay talk about the creation of the National Public Security Force, the construction of federal prisons and the approval of the Disarmament Statute by Congress.
Bastos used to comment that one of the main achievements under his management had been the demarcation of , in Roraima, the subject of a chapter written by lawyer Luiz Armando Badin.
In addition to Carvalho, the book is organized by lawyers Celso Vilardi, Maíra Salomi and Sônia Ráo and publicist Tonico Galvão.
The work has a preface by President Lula, who met Bastos when he worked as a trade unionist at ABC and started to have the criminalist as a friend and personal lawyer.
