Legal experts file ethical complaint against former minister Sergio Moro.
The action was filed by a group of 14 jurists, headed by Celso Antônio Bandeira de Mello, this Wednesday (29). The complaint asks that Moro be punished with an ethical censure and that the conclusions be forwarded to the MPF for the investigation of criminal offenses.
247 - A group of 14 jurists and lawyers filed a lawsuit against former minister Sergio Moro with the Public Ethics Council of the Presidency of the Republic this Wednesday (29).
Legal experts allege that Moro committed several ethical breaches by conditioning his continued tenure as Minister of Justice on being nominated for a position as a Supreme Court Justice, and also by negotiating the payment of a pension to his family.
The complaint also exposes Moro's negligence in failing to report to the competent authorities the illegal acts committed by Jair Bolsonaro while he was in charge of the ministry.
In the document, the legal experts, led by Celso Antônio Bandeira de Mello, request that Moro be heard within five days and that, after the investigation, he be punished with an ethical censure, and that the conclusions be forwarded to the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) so that acts of impropriety, as well as other criminal conduct due to the ethical deviations committed by the former minister, can be investigated.
The group highlights that Moro himself reported that Bolsonaro had made several attempts to change the leadership of the Federal Police since last year. Therefore, he would have violated the Code of Ethics for Public Servants by not informing the competent authorities of Bolsonaro's conduct, as it would have been illegal.
The complaint is signed by the legal experts Celso Antônio Bandeira de Mello, Lênio Streck, Carol Proner, Marcelo Neves, José Geraldo de Sousa Jr., Kenarik Boujikian, Antonio Maués, Vera Araújo, Marcelo Cattoni, Gisele Citadinno, Geraldo Prado, Weida Zancaner, Fábio Gaspar, and Marco Aurélio Carvalho.
Check out the full complaint.