What many have always thought, including the person concerned, who has always proclaimed himself innocent, could be true: second The Intercept, the news site founded by Glenn Greenwald (former collaborator of Edward Snowden), to frame the former president of Brazil Lula, forcing him to prison for corruption and taking him out of the 2018 presidential election (which he would in all probability have won) was a conspiracy. Hatched by the man on whom the greatest suspicions have always focused, Judge Sergio Moro, the "Brazilian Di Pietro", the referee of the Lava Jato maxi investigation who took out half the green-gold political class starting from the Petrobras scandal, and today – not by chance at this point – Superminister of Justice in the Bolsonaro government.
The evidence brought by Greenwald would seem unequivocal: part of one is published on the site amount of confidential documents, emails, discussions in private chats, photos, videos, in which Moro and other prosecutors confront each other to ensure that Luis Inacio Lula da Silva ends up in jail and consequently cannot run for the 2018 presidential election. Among other things, in a conversation Moro privately states together with others magistrates to have "doubts about the evidence to establish Lula's guilt". The Intercept defines those of the judge of the Brazilian Mani Pulite "a series of unethical behaviors and systematic deceptions". Lula was sentenced to 12 years for corruption, but the real goal was to keep him out of the electoral competition, so much so that despite his imprisonment the former president was willing to run as a candidate and was widely ahead in the polls, until the Court's decision Supreme to exclude him from the race.
And according to what emerges from the material, the president was prevented by judicial circles from even releasing an interview with Folha De Sao Paulo newspaper from prison, during the electoral campaign, although the same judge of the Supreme Court of justice, Lewandosky, had initially authorized it. This interview, authorized in September of last year, however, didn't have to be done. At least not right away, and in fact it will only be made a month ago, in May, after the games are largely done. According to the transcripts of The Intercept, the judges at the news of the possible interview with Lula go into a state of agitation, they confront each other for a long time, trying to study a strategy that prevents the interview. They are indignant, they speak of a "circus" (judge Laura Tessler), they launch accusations of "mafiosi" (judge Athayde Ribeiro Costa). They agree that an appeal against Lewandowski's decision would have zero chance and would expose the judges to the accusation of wanting to prevent Lula from speaking for essentially political reasons.
Meanwhile, on another chat, Deltan dallagnol, who leads the Lava Jato v. Lula trial task force, talks to another judge, who is not working on the Lula case. They express concern about a possible election of Haddad, the PT candidate who replaced the incandidable Lula. “I am very concerned about the possible return of PT and have often prayed to God to enlighten our people and give us a miracle to save us,” Carol says. “I'm with you, Carol! So pray. We need it as a country.” Dallagnol replies. Answering us on the other chat, that of Lula's accusers, Januàrio Paludio suggests a "Plan B", given the impossibility of blocking the interview: "Give all [journalists] the opportunity to interview [Lula] on the same day . It will be chaotic, thus reducing the possibility that the interview will be directed”.
"We are facing the biggest scandal in history" of Brazil, he immediately commented on Twitter Fernando Haddad, who could be right if the details of the conversations that emerged are confirmed, such as the one that makes Chief Prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol doubt two "key elements in the investigation into Lula: whether the apartment received as a bribe is actually his and whether he himself really has something to do with the Petrobras scandal.”
However, Sergio Moro above all ends up in the eye of the storm, who in words has for now been confirmed by Bolsonaro as minister, but the controversy has already flared up. From Greenwald's documents it emerges that the arbiter of the Lava Jato trial in which Lula was accused offered advice to the prosecution. To Dallagnol, for example, he suggested "reversing the order of the two planned phases [arrest warrant and interrogations]". In response to a communiqué from the PT on the Lava Jato trial, he asks, again from Dallagnol: “What do you think of the crazy communiqué from the PT? Do we have to fight back?”, using a “we” that breaks down the separation that according to the Brazilian judicial system should exist between the prosecution and the judge. In other conversations, Moro provides Dallagnol with important information for the purposes of setting up the prosecution's strategy.
Confidential information that once again undermines its impartiality. And yet, in every public statement, Moro had dismissed any accusation and suspicion from himself, even declaring himself indignant at the fact that anyone could question his impartiality. Even today, the Minister of Justice, whose credibility could be forever undermined, defends himself on Twitter: "A careful reading of the material reveals that it has nothing sensational."
