Businessman persecuted in Lava Jato reveals: Moro knew about the underwear party.

Businessman Eduardo Meira, who spent two years in pre-trial detention by order of Sergio Moro during the Lava Jato corruption investigation, released an excerpt from a report that is part of a case conducted by the then head of the 13th Federal Court of Curitiba in 2004. The document details the existence of a video showing a meeting between judges of the TRF-4 (Regional Federal Court of the 4th Region) and prostitutes in the presidential suite of the Bourbon Hotel in Curitiba.

“That judge’s decisions need to be overturned because they were upheld by a court suspected of being under blackmail,” Meira declared. The full interview can be seen below.

In the report attached to the case file, which deals with the collaboration of the undercover agent Tony Garcia, the author details the content of the intercepted communications.

In item C of chapter 2, it is reported that the lawyer Roberto Bertholdo, whom Moro wanted to arrest and who was a fugitive, had in his possession the video of the underwear party.

“Bertoldo said that when a plane was chartered from Porto Alegre/RS to Curitiba/PR to bring several federal judges from the 4th Regional Federal Court to watch the Brazilian national football team's game in Curitiba/PR, Sérgio Costa allegedly filmed, after the game, the meeting of federal judges with sex workers. This recording was supposedly in Bertoldo's possession, who went to Porto Alegre and showed the individuals what he had,” he reported.

The text accurately confirms what Tony Garcia said in an interview with TV 247 last year, which led to the Federal Police investigation in which Moro is being investigated.

Tony Garcia stated that he was informed by the then-judge that the video had been seized. However, the video was not found in any formal proceedings at the 13th Federal Court.

According to Tony, the video may have been used to blackmail judges. One of those who allegedly participated in the "underwear party" is Nefi Cordeiro, at the time at the TRF-4 (Regional Federal Court of the 4th Region), later appointed minister of the STJ (Superior Court of Justice).

After retiring, Cordeiro went into law practice and was recently announced as the representative of Gabriela Hardt, the judge who, like Moro, is also under investigation by the National Council of Justice.

The person who arranged the prostitutes for the underwear party was Mirlei de Oliveira, who owned a well-known brothel in Colombo, a neighboring municipality to Curitiba. In an interview with TV 247, shown in the documentary "A Judge Outside the Law," Mirlei confirmed providing this service.

Her lawyer, Luiz Ferraz, suspects that the arrangement of prostitutes for the highest authorities in the Federal Justice system in the South of the country is linked to the persecution she suffered soon after.

A friend of influential people in Paraná, Mirlei became the subject of an investigation, was the subject of a negative report on Fantástico, a program on TV Globo, ended up being arrested and lost all her assets, in a plot that links a major businessman to members of the Civil Police and the Court of Justice of Paraná.

One of the prosecutors who signed the lawsuit against Mirlei in 2004 was Deltan Dallagnol, who was 24 years old at the time and had been appointed to the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office shortly before.

The lawsuit against Mirlei makes no reference to the underwear party video, nor to the party at the Bourbon Hotel, but to an alleged case of international human trafficking. A few months earlier, when contacted by the press, Mirlei reportedly said that there were judges among her clients.

"Could it be that, with this action, they intended to discredit my client, to invalidate any statement she might make about this so-called underwear party? This needs to be investigated, as it could be part of a blackmail scheme. It's serious," he noted.

Businessman Eduardo Meira, who brought the case to light, is now dedicated to gathering evidence to show society that Lava Jato, instead of fighting crime, committed crimes, even before acting as a task force.

“They were all there, under Moro’s leadership,” he says. Meira accepted Roberto Bertholdo’s proposal, revealed in an interview on TV 247, to establish an association of victims of Moro and his allies in the Federal Justice and Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office.