Ex-Judge Moro asked the "Lava Jato" case team to interview Lula's testimony in the press. Internationale

The new conversations published date back to the night of May 10, 2017, the day the former president appeared before Moro to explain the three-stage judicial process of Guarujá, causing his first conviction for money laundering. 39, money and pbadive bribery. . At 22:04, according to The interception brazilMoro took the phone and wrote a message to Santos Lima asking the prosecutor what he thought of the meeting. "I think it went very well, he started to polarize with us, which left me alone, he made a lot of little contradictions and left a lot of things unanswered, something that people do not understand a lot, plants have dislodged him a bit, "said the prosecutor. "Communication is complicated because the press does not pay much attention to detail," Moro replied.

Immediately thereafter, the judge said, "You could release a news release tomorrow, specifying the contradictions of your testimony with the rest of the evidence or with your previous statement." In the following message, he justified: "Because the defense has already mounted his shtick". To which the prosecutor answered: "We can do it, I will talk to them."

Then, according to the site, Santos Lima copied the dialogue he had with Moro in a private conversation and sent it to the coordinator of the team of prosecutors, Deltan Dallagnol. Meanwhile, in a discussion group between prosecutors, team members were already discussing the possibility of publicly commenting on Lula's testimony. Santos Lima warned Dallagnol that he had sent her a private message. After three minutes, the coordinator of Lava Jato publicly explained to the group the disclosure of the possible statement: "We must badyze the following points: 1) rebadure the process and take the lead to let it go. [a Sergio Moro] more protected and a little away from home; 2) counterbalance the show of defense. Then he continued, "And as for the format, I agree, it should be a statement, to protect it and reduce risk. The JN[[[[Jornal National, Brazil's main news program]he will answer it tomorrow. If we do, we will have to work hard during the day to get him out around 4 pm, "he said.

Then Dallagnol sent a message to another group, which included the press office of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office. He again highlighted the reasons for a possible note. "The reasons for a possible demonstration are the following: a) counterbalance the demonstrations of the defense, which I normally do, in other cases, it was not, b) subtract the The attention of the judge who made the cover of the newspapers inadequate. "One of the press advisers tried to dissuade him. "Changing the position will distract attention from other issues," he said.

The next day, the prosecutors issued a statement in which they exposed the contradictions of Lula's testimony. The same evening, Dallagnol sent another message to Moro in which he again spoke of the note. "I also inform you that we badyzed it since yesterday, throughout the day, and we understand, unanimously and with Ascom [asesoría de comunicación]that the press covered the contradictions well and that manifesting about them could be worse. We exposed some [contradicciones] important for journalists. We decided to make a statement only on false information, stating that we would talk about other contradictions in the final arguments, "he says. The interception brazil.

Image crisis

The disclosure of messages by The interception brazil Last Sunday, he weakened the image of the former judge of Lava Jato, who currently holds Jair Bolsonaro's justice portfolio. Since he has accepted the post in the new government, opponents have accused him of acting to prevent Lula from winning the elections. The former president, sentenced in second instance for the case of the three-storey floor, could not be presented in the presidential elections last October. Lula led the polls. Bolsonaro, the "Cinderella" in the conflict, eventually won. The former president is serving his sentence of 8 years and 10 months in the city of Curitiba.

According to a survey conducted by Political Atlas, more than 70% of respondents know the revelations about dialogues between Moro and Dallagnol. According to this study, the discussions have caused Moro to lose some of his political capital, but he remains the country's most popular politician because of his involvement in the operation, which has exposed a vast network of corruption in the country. Brazil. The dialogues have already revealed that the ex-judge had an intense personal relationship with the coordinator of the team investigating politicians suspected of corruption, of which Lula was one of the Between them. The messages were generated using the Telegram app and contained instructions, fights, praise and even advice from sources that the team should know about. The jurists point out that the proximity between the two principles violates the constitutional principles and the Brazilian penal code. After the disclosure of the dialogues, Bolsonaro took the time to demonstrate the revelations regarding his revelations. super director. He spoke four days later and downplayed the message exchange. "What he has done is no price, he has really eradicated, shown the viscera of power, the promiscuity of power in the face of corruption," he said.