'Turning corruption into a heinous crime is pointless'
Former STJ (Superior Court of Justice) minister and lawyer Gilson Dipp questions Sérgio Moro's "crusade" against corruption: "If increased penalties were deterrent, we wouldn't have any more heinous crimes. None. But drug trafficking is increasing, homicide is increasing"; for him, the problem of impunity stems from a lack of staff in the Judiciary and the Public Prosecutor's Office and the low quality of many investigations; regarding Lava Jato, he also says that plea bargaining is a legal instrument, but "everything that is said must be investigated and proven"; Dipp is the author of an opinion in which he says that the plea bargain of money launderer Alberto Youssef is worthless because he has already violated a previous agreement.
247 – After criticizing the central plea bargain of Operation Lava Jato, former STJ (Superior Court of Justice) minister Gilson Dipp questioned Judge Sérgio Moro's 'crusade' against corruption.
According to him, classifying corruption as a heinous crime or increasing the penalty is an ineffective measure. "If increasing penalties were deterrent, we wouldn't have any more heinous crimes. None. But drug trafficking is increasing, homicide is increasing," he states.
In an interview with 'Folha de S. Paulo', he states that the problem of impunity in the country stems from a lack of staff in the Judiciary and the Public Prosecutor's Office, and from the low quality of many investigations.
The author of an opinion stating that the plea bargain of money launderer Alberto Youssef is worthless because he has already violated a previous agreement, also affirms that the investigative tactic is a legal instrument, but "everything that is said must be investigated and proven."
“I’ve heard that the preventive detentions were prolonged to facilitate plea bargains. The concern should be with the quality of the evidence. Operations Satiagraha and Castelo de Areia had illicit evidence,” he says about Lava Jato (read closest).