Sergio Moro's plan: how do they think of the fight against crime and corruption in Brazil by Jair Bolsonaro – 02/05/2019

The Minister of Justice and Public Security of Brazil, Sergio Moro, presented his plan to fight corruption, organized crime and violent crime. one of the main campaign promises from ultra-right president Jair Bolsonaro.

The 3 flagella "are linked"said Moro, who was the judge of Wash jato, the famous and gigantic case of corruption that led to the prison of former President Lula da Silva.

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"Organized crime uses corruption to gain impunity and is linked to a good deal of homicide," he said at a press conference in Brasilia.

In 2017, there were approximately 64,000 homicides in Brazil.

The bill that will be sent to Congress asks edit more than a dozen standards.

One of the most controversial points is that supports police actions in "legitimate defense".

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Bolsonaro sent a message to lawmakers at the hospital, where he summons himself after an operation in the abdomen as a result of the injury that he suffered during an election campaign.

The appointed president breaking with a past under governments "shy in the protection of the victim and effusive in the social victimization of the criminal".

"It's over!" Brazilian government declares war on organized crime: moral war, legal war, war in action"said the 63-year-old former military officer, who took office on 1 January.

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A Moro is seen both inside and outside of Brazil as a synonym for fighting corruption. Between 2014 and 2018 he led the operation Wash jato, which unveiled a gigantic plot of public money detours orchestrated by politicians, businessmen and representatives of the national oil company Petrobras, a scandal that had consequences in the rest of Latin America thanks to the Odebrecht case.

"I would never go into politics", Had badured Moro when he was a magistrate. However, he ends up accepting Bolsonaro's proposal.

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Now, as the minister intends leave engraved in the law one of the flags of his direction as a judge: the imprisonment of convicts in the second instance without it being necessary to exhaust the judicial remedies before the higher courts.

He says it's about a fundamental change to fight against impunity and prevent "white-collar" criminals from taking advantage of the slowness of the justice system.

Currently, the Supreme Court allows the prison to begin functioning after conviction in the second instance, although it must be ordered by each court.

The Federal Supreme Court (STF) is due to raise the issue again next April. A change of position could give freedom to many convicts including Lula, who is serving 12 years and one month of pbadive bribery and money laundering.

Another measure proposed by Moro turns illegal financing of election campaigns into illegal financing ("Box 2"), a practice very common in Brazilian politics. Today, it is just an electoral crime.

In the area of ​​citizen security, the government's priority is "take offenders off the street" to reduce homicides.

The idea is imprisoning leaders of drug trafficking organizations in maximum security prisons and deprive members of the benefits that currently exist to reduce penalties.

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Inspired by the Italian law against mafias, Moro proposes to include in the law the main criminal factions, such as the First Command of the capital (PCC, based in San Pablo) and Comando Vermelho ( "Red", whose stronghold is in Rio de Janeiro), as well as the vigilante militias who control and impose their law in many favelas.

Regarding the overpopulation of prisons, controlled by the factions, the minister claimed that it was an issue that would be dealt with separately and defended "the expansion of investments" to increase quotas.

Another point of the project defines how "self-defense" the intervention of a police officer who "in an armed conflict or who is at risk of imminent armed conflict, prevents unfair aggression against you or against third parties"And it says that the judge can reduce the sentence or exempt him if he identifies an excess of product of "fear, surprise or violent emotion".

"We are making it clear that some everyday situations are a legitimate defense, and that's already done in practice," said Moro.

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He denied representing a carte blanche for the police to summarily execute suspected criminals"No, it's not a license to kill, anyone who says that's wrong."

Sergio Moro added: "The police do not need to wait to get shot, the armed conflict between the police and criminals it is not a recommended public safety strategy"

sources: AFP, Reuters.