"Moro makes a plea bargain about himself in a book," says Professor João Cezar de Castro Rocha.
In an interview with TV 247, a professor from UERJ explains the contradictions of the biased former judge in his relationship with the money launderer Alberto Youssef.
247 - In an interview with TV 247, João Cezar Castro Rocha, a professor of comparative literature at UERJ (Rio de Janeiro State University), analyzed the autobiography of former judge Sergio Moro, who was declared biased by the Supreme Federal Court (STF) in the Lava Jato corruption investigations against former president Lula (PT). The professor revealed that Moro essentially made a plea bargain with himself in the book by contradicting himself about his relationship with the money launderer. Alberto Youssef.
“We are not going to caricature Sergio Moro; we are going to respect what he wrote and read in his text how, to some extent, this book is a plea bargain of himself. Alberto Youssef was the architect of the biggest corruption scandal in Brazil, which, contrary to what Bolsonaro's supporters constantly repeat, is neither Mensalão nor Petrolão, but happened in Paraná. The biggest corruption scandal in the country, involving money laundering and tax evasion, was Banestado. And who was the judge? Sergio Moro,” the professor recalls.
Rocha points out that the first emblematic case of plea bargaining in Brazil was in the Banestado case, and the beneficiary was Youssef. In other words, Moro and Youssef already knew each other from then on, as the former biased judge recounts in the second chapter of his book. Since the early 2000s, the money launderer had been evading arrest warrants.
"It is evident that Alberto Youssef is known in the political ecosystem of Paraná before..." 1998"Sergio Moro is saying, in no uncertain terms, that Youssef corrupted the Federal Police in Londrina, that he received privileged information and that's why he was never arrested, and that this information was already circulating in the early 2000s," he emphasizes.
According to the professor's analysis, Youssef was already a "star" within the political and financial ecosystem of Paraná, considered "the money man," who carried out currency evasion by transforming corruption money into dollars abroad. "He was the mastermind behind the entire operation in Curitiba," he states.
Eleven years later, in March 2014, Youssef was arrested again by Moro. In the book, the former judge describes that the news that the money launderer had returned to committing the same crimes "was not exactly a surprise to me. I had already heard rumors that the former money launderer, despite the collaboration agreement in Operation Farol da Colina, signed by him, had returned to the world of crime."
Rocha questions why, if it was no surprise to then-judge Sergio Moro that Alberto Youssef had returned to crime, breaking his plea bargain agreement, he didn't order an investigation?
Moro then allowed Youssef's second plea bargain, arguing that it was essential for dozens of indictments and arrests of important figures, making it possible to prove billions in embezzled funds.
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