The Intercept website publishes articles alleging anticorruption investigators conspired against Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Strong public support for Brazil’s anticorruption drive makes overturning convictions or the justice minister’s resignation unlikelyDemonstrators protest in front of the justice ministry in Brasilia, Brazil, June 10 2019. Picture: EVARISTO SA / AFP
Claims that justice minister Sergio Moro — the anticorruption judge who handed Lula his first conviction in 2017 which effectively ended his election hopes and decades of centre-left rule in Brazil — collaborated with prosecutors to convict and jail the popular former politician were a “setback” for the probe, Christopher Garman of Eurasia Group said.
“They do not change, in substance, the reason for the convictions even though they reveal inappropriate comments ,” said former president Fernando Cardoso in remarks published by the UOL website. “We shouldn’t discard the real possibility the conversations were forged, creating #fakenews,” tweeted Marcelo Bretas, a judge in the Car Wash probe in Rio de Janeiro.
And Moro repeatedly “overstepped the ethical lines that define the role of a judge” by offering prosecutors advice and tips for “new avenues of investigation”, the site said. “They are things that happened, if they happened, years ago,” Moro was quoted by news website Antagonista as saying. “I don’t keep these, I have no record of this.”
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