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Politicians and authorities reacted, almost instantly, to President Jair Bolsonaro’s (non-partisan) speech on the alleged end of Operation Lava Jato. During the launch ceremony of the Voo Simples program this afternoon, Bolsonaro said that he ended the task force because, according to him, “there is no more corruption” in his government. (Watch the video above)
“It is a pride, a satisfaction that I have to tell this wonderful press of ours, that I do not want to end Lava Jato … I finished with Lava Jato, because there is no more corruption in the government,” said the president. being applauded by the local authorities. “I know this is not a virtue, it is an obligation. For us, we make a government with an open heart,” he added then.
On social media, politicians reacted: Federal Deputy Erika Kokay (PT-DF), for example, described the speech as “cynicism and debauchery.”
“With cynicism and debauchery, Bolsonaro says he ended Lava Jato because ‘there is no more corruption in the government.’ Lava Jato has never been against corruption, it has always been an instrument to persecute the PT and bring the right to power. , Bolsonaro says that and nothing happens, “wrote Congresswoman Erika Kokay.
PSOL’s Ivan Valente said Lava Jato prosecutors and former judge and former minister Sérgio Moro did everything possible to elect Bolsonaro.
“The Lava Jato and Moro prosecutors did everything possible to elect Bolsonaro, a corrupt man who brings together the worst vices of the old politics. All this to hear from the scoundrel:” I finished with Lava Jato … because there is no more corruption in the government. “It is the most boring comedy ever seen,” he emphasized.
The president of Cidadania, Paulo Freire, also criticized the president’s statement and said that the end was really the fight against corruption.
“Bolsonaro dissolved COAF; put the friend of the friend of his children in charge of the FP; put an enemy of Lava Jato in the PGR; forced Moro’s resignation; changed the Rent to protect family enrichment; appointed a Centrão ally to the STF. What ended was the fight against corruption ”, he emphasized.
The leader of the network in the Senate, Randolfe Rodrigues, said that Bolsonaro’s performance, in fact, dismantled the Lava Jato task force.
“Bolsonaro’s actions, in fact, dismantled the mechanisms to fight corruption in the country. According to the dictatorship, he says that there is no corruption when it interferes with the conduct of investigations. It would be a joke if it were not an affront to our Democratic State! !
Prerogative to end Lava Jato belongs to the PGR
Despite Bolsonaro’s speech, the prerogative to end Lava Jato does not belong to the Executive Branch, but to the PGR (Attorney General’s Office (PGR)). The PGR, the uncertainties about the future of a series of investigations still in progress and has mobilized the team’s prosecutors to act for the continuity of the operation, according to Folha.
Lava Jato’s lawyer Roberson Pozzobon said, in an interview with CNN Brazil in September, that “it is impossible” to close the more than 400 investigations underway in the Operation by January.
Today the 76th stage of Lava Jato took place
With 76 stages activated since 2014, the Lava Jato operation frequently uses elements obtained during the investigation to piece together the puzzle with evidence when presenting new complaints and requesting a further investigation of its developments.
In September, the deputy prosecutor María Caetana Cintra dos Santos, of the Superior Council of the Federal Public Ministry, extended the working group of Operation Lava Jato in Curitiba for a year, in a preliminary decision that contradicts the summit of the Attorney General’s Office of the Nation.
This morning, the Federal Police launched a new phase of Operation Lava Jato, called “Unlimited III”. The agents carried out four search warrants and seizures in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The actions, according to the corporation, were aimed at deepening the investigations into alleged criminal practices committed in the Petrobras Supply Division, specifically in the Marketing and Commercialization executive department.
In six and a half years, the list of people convicted in the Lava Jato operation only increases: important names such as former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, José Dirceu, Marcelo Odebrecht, Eduardo Cunha, Nestor Cerveró, among others.
