The prosecutor who didn't search ended up finding it.

I would like to draw attention here to some reflections I made at the time of the "PALOCCI CRISIS," which was widely reported in the "mainstream press."

It is said that in the government's political dealings, the "honorable exit" conceived for the "former-always-future-consultant" minister depended on a public servant named Roberto Gurgel, the Attorney General of the Republic, from whom President Dilma, the former "Lula," and the minister himself, who was still at the time, expected the "dismissal of the accusations."

And sure enough, Prosecutor Roberto Gurgel found arguments not to investigate, not to "search," not to satisfy society, which pays him to defend it and sensed that the right thing to do was to thoroughly investigate the complaint.

This action by the Attorney General of the Republic endorsed the fact that, in Brazil, anyone can "increase" their assets twentyfold in less than four years, without breaking a sweat, and invest in ventures with high asset or technological value.

Here, the impression left is that anyone "does well," to use a popular expression, even without being a genius with an aptitude for something legitimate, like the creators of "Google," "Apple," "Facebook," and so on.

We, ordinary citizens, can only become rich, as Mr. Palocci is said to have become, if we are or have been part of the government, or have business dealings with the government?

Anyone would want to know, so they can teach their children the "formula" that the Attorney General chose not to look for at that time.

Even those who are going to "criticize" this article here on "247," I'm sure that deep down in their pockets—I refuse to believe they "professionally monitor" the criticisms often made in the electronic media regarding the Government, because they are supported by NGOs, orgs, and who knows what else, with "links to the Treasury"—would like to know.

There are no limits to power. We're not fools!

In the Palocci case, they went where we all, as spectators—and victims of this sociopathy—thought they wouldn't reach: the Attorney General's Office.

One of the last hopes for preserving and ensuring decency in the handling of public affairs, this institution, like the press, has done more for society than the National Congress – and even more so all state and municipal legislative bodies – should do and does not, and often even "undoes," in terms of overseeing those who manage public funds.

Good heavens, nobody multiplies their assets twentyfold in a few months in this country without winning the lottery, speculating in the financial market with highly privileged – and therefore illegal – information, trafficking drugs, robbing banks, or committing corruption or crimes against the public treasury.

It's either luck, or dishonest or criminal conduct, because honest money – even stupidity recognizes – is something that takes a long time to accumulate anywhere in the civilized world, or not. There's no magic involved, outside of luck or illegality.

What the Prosecutor did not seek at that time was the solid legal foundation of the principle of morality, which is enshrined in the Federal Constitution as a guideline that should guide not only the then consultant-congressman-minister, but the Prosecutor himself in the investigation of the serious facts involving a repeatedly accused individual.

But, following these events, the Attorney General was reappointed by President Dilma to the position of Chief Auditor of the National Treasury.

Very good... He must have the qualities for reappointment, certainly.

Now, secure in the position of great responsibility that destiny has reserved for him once again, he exercised, with great good sense, the institutional prerogatives imposed upon him by that very same constitutional principle of morality from the time of the "Palocci case," and decided to "look for" what they say the then-Minister of Sports was doing wrong.

Obviously, only those who seek, find. And, often, it takes a lot of searching to find what might be hidden.

The prosecutor who refused to investigate the "Palocci case" was far, far less significant, in that recent national context, than the institution he belongs to. It's good that things have changed.

The Nation, and this is a unanimous opinion among thinking beings in this country, needs to recover its true values, and this will not be done through impunity, or by encouraging it.