"Brazil will not be a haven for criminals", says Sérgio Moro | New

Two months after having decided to change magistrate at the Esplanada dos Ministérios, Sérgio Moro badumed the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. Beside him, the President of the Supreme, Dias Toffoli, the predecessors of each case Torquato Jardim and Raul Jungmann; and the president of the OAB, Claudio Lamachia.

Moro said Brazil needed stronger laws and instruments to fight crime: "We are not fighting corruption only through effective criminal investigations and criminal convictions. They are relevant because there is no effective fight against corruption with impunity and no risk of punishment for criminals, but they are not enough, more comprehensive anti-corruption policies are needed. More effective justice and laws that diminish incentives and opportunities against corruption A judge of Curitiba can not do anything about these general policies, but in the federal government the story may be different. "

detailed measures needed to combat criminal factions in prisons. "The remedy here is universal, although not always easy to implement, imprisonment of its members, isolation of the inmates of the management, identification of the structure and confiscation of the badets, which leads them to weaken and dismantle them" , did he declare.

Moro spoke of the need to strengthen international cooperation. "Brazil will not be a haven for criminals and will never refuse, once again, to cooperate with anyone who asks for reasons exclusively related to political parties," he said.

In 2010, the then president, Lula, denied the extradition of Italian Cesare Battisti, sentenced to life imprisonment in Italy for four homicides. In December, former President Michel Temer had authorized extradition. Since then, Battisti has been on the run.

Moro announced that one of his priorities was to send to Congress, in February, a package of measures to fight against criminal organizations: "It is planned to clarify the law, as already stated in several times the Federal Court: in the criminal proceedings, the rule must be that of the execution of the sentence after the judgment of the second instance ".

The minister concluded by mentioning the damage caused by corruption: "The Brazilian, whatever his income – and remember that the deviation of public resources affects more strongly the most vulnerable and the most dependent on public services, has the right to live without the feeling of being stolen or deceived by his representatives in the various spheres of power He has the right that the resources of the public coffers are intended for the general well-being and not for the enrichment illicit of the powerful ".

Moro led the Lava Jet investigators to strategic positions. The team that took office this Wednesday (2) worked with him as part of the operation and even in previous investigations.