Sérgio Moro

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Sérgio Moro (2019)

Sérgio Fernando Moro (born August 1, 1972 in Maringá , Paraná ) is a Brazilian federal judge. He was the country's Justice Minister from January 2019 to April 2020 under President Jair Bolsonaro .

He was in March 2014, the judge in charge of the federal police action "Força tarefa" to fight the great political scandals of Brazil, the operation Lava Jato by (, operation car wash or high-pressure cleaner), in the high-ranking politicians and business corruption and bribery involved are. In this context he first instance also condemned Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio da Silva to imprisonment of twelve years, with research by the intercept a bias Moros and its rights abuse documented. Da Silva herself was released after two years due to an incomplete second appeal.

On October 30, 2018, Moro was nominated by President-elect Jair Bolsonaro ( PSL ) as the new Minister of Justice of Brazil and took up his post as Minister of Justice and Public Security on January 1, 2019 in the newly established Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública . He resigned on April 24, 2020. He was considered one of two "super ministers" in the Bolsonaro cabinet and a link to the moderate right .

Life

Moro studied law at the University of Maringá (UEM) in 1995 . During his studies he worked for a law firm for two years. In 1995 he graduated from Maringá. From 1996 he gave courses at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (Federal University of Paraná, UFPR) in Curitiba and in the same year became a federal judge ( Portuguese juiz federal ) at the Tribunal Regional Federal da 4ª Região in Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul .

He visited in 1998 in the United States a training program of the Harvard Law School for Lawyers ( Program of Instruction for Lawyers ) and participated in by the United States Department of State -sponsored study programs on money laundering . Between 1999 and 2002 he was the presiding judge of the Third Criminal Chamber in Joinville , Santa Catarina state .

Moro obtained his Masters and Doctorate in public law from the Universidade Federal do Paraná in 2002 with the renowned contract lawyer Marçal Justen Filho . At this university he teaches criminal procedural law.

He worked as a judge for over 20 years, most recently as a federal judge of the 13th Federal Criminal Court of Curitiba , where he was replaced by judge Luiz Antônio Bonat after taking over the ministerial post.

Prior to his activities as a judge in the Operação Lava Jato case , he also led the Banestado case from 2003 , which led to the conviction of 97 people. He also worked on the 2004 Operação Farol da Colina case in which 103 people were arrested on charges of tax evasion , tax fraud, extortion and money laundering. In the case of the Mensalão scandal , the Minister of the Supreme Court (STF), Rosa Weber , asked him to take on the case, not least because of his well-known expertise in financial crime and money laundering.

Sérgio Moro (2015)

By the magazine Isto É he was elected in 2014 to the "Brazilians of the Year" and is, according to the Epoca magazine as one of the hundred most influential people in Brazil in 2014. In surveys from 2014 and 2015 he was also from the news magazine Veja of the "Brazilians Year ”and was selected from 15 personalities via social networks.

On July 12, 2017, ex-President Lula da Silva was sentenced by Moro to nine years and six months in prison for corruption and money laundering, a case that is unique in Brazilian history.

On January 24, 2018, Moro sentenced Lula da Silva to 12 years and one month in prison for corruption and money laundering. The final judgment was confirmed and the sentence increased. Lula had sued the UN Human Rights Committee against Moro's actions and was ruled: On October 26, 2016, the council declared that Lula's rights had been violated by Judge Moro. On July 8, 2018, a judge ordered the provisional release of Lula as long as the appeal process that he had initiated was not completed. This judgment was reversed by the court president, leaving Lula in custody as of July 9, 2018.

Data released by The Intercept (Brasil) on June 9, 2019 shows that Moro had no interest in a fair trial and sought the conviction of Lula to prevent Lula's participation in the 2018 presidential election in Brazil . Lula was released in November 2019 as the verdict was not final due to the second appeal not being completed.

Minister of Justice

Sérgio Moro (center) with President Jair Bolsonaro (right) at the celebrations for Independence Day (2019)

Four days after the 2018 presidential election in which Jair Bolsonaro was elected, on November 1, 2018, Moro met with him in Rio de Janeiro . That day it was announced that Bolsonaro would appoint him to his cabinet as Minister of Justice. In the past, Moro often emphasized that he had no interest in going into politics. The announcement was largely positively received by other judges in the country, but criticism in the press that there was a conflict of interest , as Bolsonaro's potential opponent Lula da Silva could not stand due to Moro's judgment.

After Bolsonaro Maurício Valeixo , the general director of the Brazilian Federal Police , against Moro's will, he resigned from the post of Justice Minister on April 24, 2020. He justified this with the increasing interference of the President in his affairs; he had been promised extensive independence when he took office. Moro accused Bolsonaro of wanting to politically influence the investigation. The police had repeatedly investigated him and his sons beforehand. Bolsonaro contradicted Moro's statements; he said he was "loyal to the side of all Brazilians who have declared war on corruption" and accused Moro of undermining his authority.

Analysts saw Moro's departure as a further sign of the collapse of the Bolsonaro cabinet, in which the balance of power would now shift more towards the radical forces and the military. Impeachment proceedings against the president would be more likely. Moro is promised ambitions to run for the presidential election in 2022.

On April 28, 2020, Bolsonaro appointed André Luiz de Almeida Mendonça , the previous federal prosecutor who is considered loyal to the president, to be Moro's successor as Justice Minister .

criticism

Sérgio Moro with Senator Soraya Thronicke (PSL) (2019)

His investigations against Lula da Silva are controversial and are attacked by internationally recognized experts such as Geoffrey Robertson , as it concerns the politicization of the judiciary.

Independent media accuse Moro of taking sides and unilateral investigations against the camp of the PT's social democratic government . He is considered the most important name of the movement that operated the controversial suspension of President Dilma Rousseff .

Professional colleagues mockingly refer to Moro as “ Rei dos Vazamentos ” (German: “King of the Leaks”).

Personal

Moro is a descendant of Italian immigrants from the Veneto . His father Dalton Áureo Moro (1943-2005) was a professor of geography at the University of Maringá, his mother Odete Starke Moro was a Portuguese teacher. Moro is married to the lawyer Rosângela Wolff de Quadros Moro and has two children.

Fonts

  • Desenvolvimento e efetivação judicial das normas constitucionais. Max Limonad, São Paulo 2001.
  • Legislação suspeita? Afastamento da presunção de constitucionalidade da lei. 2nd Edition. Juruá Editora, Curitiba 2003.
  • Jurisdição constitucional como democracia. Editora Revista dos Tribunais, São Paulo 2004.
  • Crime de lavagem de dinheiro. Saraiva, São Paulo 2010. ( The crime of money laundering ).

literature

Web links

Commons : Sérgio Moro  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Retrato do juiz Sérgio Moro quando jovem , altamiroborges.blogspot.de, accessed on May 26, 2016 (Portuguese)
  2. ↑ Caso Lava Jato - Entenda o caso , lavajato.mpf.mp.br, accessed on May 26, 2016 (Portuguese)
  3. ^ The end of two-class justice , sueddeutsche.de, from November 29, 2015
  4. ^ A b Glenn Greenwald, Victor Pougy: Hidden Plot: Exclusive: Brazil's Top Prosecutors Who Indicted Lula Schemed in Secret Messages to Prevent His Party From Winning 2018 Election. In: theintercept.com. June 9, 2019, Retrieved June 11, 2019 (American English).
  5. ↑ Jan Marinko: Supreme Court in Brazil examines Justice Minister Moro's bias. America21, August 21, 2019, accessed February 24, 2020 .
  6. ↑ First interview after the Brazil election: Bolsonaro wants to make star judge minister of justice - and arm the citizens. In: Spiegel Online . October 30, 2018, accessed October 30, 2018 .
  7. ↑ a b tagesschau.de: Justice Minister resigns in dispute with Bolsonaro. Retrieved April 24, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Video and text of the declaration of resignation: Veja e leia a íntegra do pronunciamento em que Moro anunciou saída do governo. In: globo.com. G1, April 24, 2020, accessed April 25, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  9. ^ A b Christoph Gurk: Brazil's Minister of Justice Sérgio Moro resigns. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Süddeutsche Zeitung Digitale Medien GmbH, April 24, 2020, accessed on April 25, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Rogerio Waldrigues Galindo: Sergio Moro to ilustríssimo desconhecido. ( Memento of August 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Gazeta do Povo of December 11, 2015. Retrieved on August 31, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  11. ^ Justiça Federal Curitiba - Varas Federais - 13ª Vara Federal , jfpr.jus.br, accessed on May 26, 2016 (Portuguese).
  12. ↑ Ponta-grossense aparece na lista de 'Brasileiros do Ano' da IstoÉ arede.info, accessed on May 26, 2016 (Portuguese).
  13. ↑ Sergio Moro é eleito pela 2ª vez a Personalidade do Ano; protestos de março contra Dilma são o Fato de 2015 , veja.abril.com.br, from December 30, 2015 (Portuguese)
  14. ↑ Fausto Decedo et al. a .: Lula é condenado a 9 anos e seis meses; Moro not decreta prisão do petista. In: O Estadão . July 12, 2017. Retrieved July 12, 2017 (Portuguese).
  15. ↑ Twelve years in prison for former President Lula faz.net, January 24, 2018
  16. ↑ Brazil: Ex-President Lula files a complaint against investigating judge Sérgio Moro . In: amerika21 . Berlin November 20, 2016 ( amerika21.de [accessed December 26, 2017]).
  17. ↑ Power struggle of several judges: Brazil's ex-president Lula remains in custody . In: Spiegel Online . July 9, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 9, 2019]).
  18. ↑ Glenn Greenwald, Victor Pougy: Hidden Plot: Exclusive: Brazil's Top Prosecutors Who Indicted Lula Schemed in Secret Messages to Prevent His Party From Winning 2018 Election. In: The Intercept. June 9, 2019, Retrieved April 25, 2020 (American English).
  19. ^ Ex-President Lula allegedly deliberately arrested. Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Mensagens vazadas revelam que Moro orientou investigações da Lava Jato. In: com.br. noticias.uol.com.br, June 9, 2019, accessed June 10, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  21. ^ Ernesto Londoño: 'The Antithesis of Bolsonaro': A Gay Couple Roils Brazil's Far Right . In: The New York Times . July 20, 2019, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed April 25, 2020]).
  22. ^ Ernesto Londoño, Letícia Casado: Leaked Messages Raise Fairness Questions in Brazil Corruption Inquiry . In: The New York Times . June 10, 2019, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed April 25, 2020]).
  23. ↑ After prison sentence for corruption: Brazil's ex-president Lula is free . In: Spiegel Online . November 9, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 9, 2019]).
  24. ↑ Court decision in Brazil: Ex-President Lula before temporary release . In: Spiegel Online . November 8, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 9, 2019]).
  25. ↑ Moro aceita convite de Bolsonaro para comandar o Ministério da Justiça. In: G1. Globo Comunicação e Participações SA, November 1, 2018, accessed April 24, 2020 (Portuguese).
  26. ↑ a b Sebastian Schoepp: Bolsonaro's controversial super minister. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Süddeutsche Zeitung Digitale Medien GmbH, November 6, 2018, accessed on April 24, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Bruno Aragaki: Análise: Por que a nomeação de Moro por Bolsonaro caiu mal na imprensa internacional? In: UOL. November 1, 2018, accessed April 24, 2020 (Portuguese).
  28. ↑ Thais Skodowski: Associação dos Magistrados elogia a escolha de Moro para Ministério. In: R7 Brasil. Rádio e Televisão Record SA, November 1, 2018, accessed April 24, 2020 (Portuguese).
  29. ↑ a b Ivo Marusczyk: Brazilian "super-minister" resigned. In: tagesschau.de. ARD, April 25, 2020, accessed on April 25, 2020 .
  30. ↑ Eliane Cantanhêde, Jussara Soares, Paulo Roberto Netto, Luiz Vassallo: Bolsonaro nomeia André Mendonça para o lugar de Moro e Ramagem para chefiar a PF. In: Estadão. Grupo Estado, April 28, 2020, accessed April 28, 2020 (Portuguese).
  31. ↑ Peter Steiniger: Legal farce . In: young world . May 17, 2017 ( jungewelt.de [accessed July 12, 2017]).
  32. ↑ Documentos indicam grampo ilegal e abusos de Moro na origem da Lava Jato - "Documents show illegal acts and abuse of power by Moro in the Lava Jato case" , article from April 3, 2016 on the news portal www.uol.com.br, accessed on 28. May 2016
  33. ↑ Sergio Moro: Herói anticorrupção ou incendiário? - “Sergio Moro: hero against corruption or arsonist?” , Article from April 3, 2016 by BBC Brasil, accessed on May 28, 2016
  34. ↑ 13 de março: juiz Moro, o herói dos protestos pelo país - “13. March: Judge Moro, the hero of the protests for the country ” , article in the news magazine Veja of March 13, 2016, accessed on May 28, 2016
  35. ↑ Esposa do Juiz Sérgio Moro assessorou vice-governador do PSDB. In: Pragmatismo Político, December 6, 2014. Retrieved August 31, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  36. ↑ Homenagem aos que se foram… Dalton Áureo Moro. UNESP (Brazilian Portuguese, [accessed June 1, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Moro, Sérgio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moro, Sérgio Fernando (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian federal judge, university professor and minister of justice
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Maringá , Paraná