Only a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) can investigate the dangerous connections of Lava Jato.

A breath of justice is already sweeping across the country, rekindling hopes that injustices committed over time, including by the Justice system itself, may soon be corrected. Signs that the winds are changing are visible in the current behavior of the Supreme Federal Court, quite different from the times of Minister Carmen Lucia's administration, especially due to the courageous actions of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, and the decisions of some judges in various parts of the country. In fact, it is easy to see that the current climate in the country, especially regarding Lava Jato, differs considerably from the time when the Curitiba task force, even committing scandalous abuses, had the approval of the Attorney General's Office, the higher courts, and even the Supreme Federal Court itself, as well as the National Councils of Justice and the Public Prosecutor's Office, which have shamefully transformed into corporate bodies.

Operation Lava Jato, which for a long time became a parallel power in the country, to the point of questioning even Supreme Court decisions, emerged with the objective of investigating corruption allegations at Petrobras. However, as it gained international prominence, it transformed into a political instrument with strong influence on politics and the economy, even being the main reason for Jair Bolsonaro's election to the Presidency of the Republic. Then-judge Sergio Moro, commander of the task force, using a legal farce, removed former president Lula from the electoral race and, with that, paved the way for the rise of the captain. For this, he was rewarded with an appointment to the Ministry of Justice, in addition to the promise of an appointment to the Supreme Federal Court, but his power project was thwarted by the President himself, whose puppet he had become. And today he is heading towards ostracism or imprisonment, if his connection with the United States and his betrayal of our country are investigated. 

 No one doubts anymore that Lava Jato was conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice, as long-standing suspicions confirmed by the recent revelations of The Intercept. Sergio Moro and Deltan Dallagnol, the two commanders of the operation, maintained close ties with the American secret service, providing them with classified information about our country—the same information they now refuse to share with their superiors in the Attorney General's Office. With the collaboration of FBI agents, who acted freely in Brazil without the knowledge of the Brazilian government, protected by the task force personnel, Moro and Dallagnol destroyed the largest national engineering companies and caused the unemployment of thousands of workers to serve Uncle Sam's interests. And the international spaces in the construction industry left by Brazilian companies were immediately occupied by their American counterparts.    

Furthermore, the traitors of Lava Jato weakened Petrobras to allow its privatization and the handover of the pre-salt reserves to American multinationals, with the valuable help of the well-known sellout José Serra who, with the participation of his colleagues in the Senate, removed the Brazilian state-owned company's priority in the exploration of national oil reserves. This explains the shielding of the PSDB party by the task force, according to Moro's recommendation, "not to offend them." The dismantling of Petrobras and the handover of our oil reserves, an old dream of the Americans, were planned in the United States Department of Justice based on information gathered from the espionage that had been carried out in the state-owned company, as revealed by Assange's WikiLeaks. For the success of the undertaking, however, it was also necessary to overthrow Dilma Rousseff's government and banish the PT from national political life and, consequently, prevent Lula from returning to power.  

The conviction and imprisonment of the former president by then-judge Sergio Moro, a legal farce recognized by jurists both inside and outside the country, which guaranteed Bolsonaro's election, was an operation conceived and coordinated by the Americans, with the complicity of prosecutors, police officers, and the judge of Lava Jato, according to revelations from Vaza Jato. Although the Federal Police, in more than two years of investigating Lula's life, did not find evidence of the misappropriation of a single cent, the Workers' Party leader was still convicted, accused of benefiting from works carried out in an apartment that never belonged to him, as attested by the Justice system itself. Even knowing this, the higher courts, especially the judges of the Federal Regional Court of the 4th Region, endorsed Moro's decision, who recently admitted to having judged Lula as an adversary in a boxing ring. As there was no evidence against the former president, his trial was scandalously political, with everyone turning a blind eye to the abuses of the task force, which did not even respect the Federal Constitution. 

 The crimes committed by Lava Jato were denounced in a lawsuit against the Union by Federal Police delegate Mário Renato Castanheira Fanton, who was part of that operation for some time. Among other things, he accused the members of Lava Jato of falsifying expert evidence, procedural fraud, prevarication, criminal leniency, perjury, malicious denunciation, and criminal association. Since times have changed, everything indicates that the Supreme Federal Court will finally do justice and approve the recusal of Moro, which will imply the annulment of the entire flawed process he conducted against Lula in the Curitiba court. Nobody understands why this process has been dragging on in the Supreme Court until now, with the frequent postponements of its judgment. And if this trial is not concluded by the end of next August, it will be no surprise if it is postponed until next year, since in September Minister Luiz Fux, a trusted man of Lava Jato, as Dallagnol himself revealed in a conversation leaked by The Intercept, assumes the presidency of the Court. In fact, Moro's bias is not enough: the actions of Lava Jato, especially its connections with the United States Department of Justice, need to be thoroughly investigated by a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry. Besides the abuses committed, it is necessary to clarify, among other things, where the task force obtained so much money (R$ 500 million) to offer to the federal government, since it has no revenue. Fines? If it is the proceeds of fines, this money should be in the public coffers, not in the task force which, legally, has no authority to manage these resources. It is also necessary to clarify why they refuse to share their data with the Attorney General's Office, their hierarchical superior. 

In fact, it's shameful that Attorney General Augusto Aras has to resort to the Supreme Court to be obeyed by his subordinates. And the National Council of the Public Prosecutor's Office (CNMP), which he presides over, continues to postpone the judgment of actions against Dallagnol, who, it seems, continues to intimidate, without restraint, anyone who crosses his path. A disgrace!