1. Sergio Moro was elected as a member of the Federal Senate for Parana in October 2022.
33 Facts About Sergio Moro
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On 29 October, shortly after the 2018 Brazilian general election, President-elect Bolsonaro nominated Sergio Moro to be Minister of Justice and Public Security.
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Sergio Moro left the government in April 2020, mentioning the President's undue interference in the affairs of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security.
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On March 9,2021, the habeas corpus trial was resumed in the Supreme Federal Court that questioned his impartiality, with two judges, Gilmar Mendes and Ricardo Lewandowski, voting that Sergio Moro was indeed biased, including the vote of these two last for the payment of a US$40,000 fine and the court costs of the lawsuit filed against Lula.
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Later, in 2022, the United Nations Committee agreed with the STF that Sergio Moro was biased in all cases against Lula.
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Sergio Moro's family is of Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Polish descent.
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Sergio Moro got a law degree from State University of Maringa in 1995.
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Sergio Moro attended a summer course at Harvard Law School in 1998, including studies on money laundering promoted by the US Department of State.
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Sergio Moro received his master's degree in 2000 from the Federal University of Parana with the dissertation "Development and Judicial Enforcement of Constitutional Norms", guided by Professor Clemerson Merlin Cleve.
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In 1996, Sergio Moro started teaching law graduates at his alma mater, the Federal University of Parana.
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Between 2003 and 2007, Sergio Moro worked on a case involving the public bank Banestado.
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However, at an unusual speed, Sergio Moro authorized further investigations, detentions and interrogations of suspects.
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In 2017, Sergio Moro sentenced former Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, to 9 and a half years in jail, on the charges of money laundering and passive corruption.
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The decision was later overturned by the Supreme Court of Brazil in 2021, which stated that Sergio Moro had acted with partiality.
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In many of his encounters with the media and further interviews, Sergio Moro described himself as "apolitical" and said he had no interested in joining the political world.
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Exactly four days after the election, on 1 November 2018, Sergio Moro met with Bolsonaro and it was announced that he would become a minister in Bolsonaro's administration.
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Sergio Moro's nomination was well received by fellow magistrates across the country, but opponents of Bolsonaro and some people in the press criticized the decision on the grounds of conflict of interest, claiming that Moro's sentencing of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva greatly benefited Bolsonaro's bid for the presidency.
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However, that changed over time and the president started to interfere in investigations and in the way Sergio Moro was running the ministry.
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On top of that, Sergio Moro criticized Bolsonaro's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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On 24 April 2020, after an unjustified discharge of Federal Police's Director-General Mauricio Valeixo by president Bolsonaro, Sergio Moro decided to announce that he would leave the Ministry, while denouncing the president's intention to meddle in investigations.
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Sergio Moro then started a career as lawyer and attorney.
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Sergio Moro joined the political party Podemos on November 10,2021 and confirmed that he was building his government project, as a pre-candidate for the Brazilian presidency.
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Sergio Moro had emerged as a "third way" candidate against poll-leading former president Lula on the left and extreme-right Bolsonaro.
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However, after leaving the Podemos party, Sergio Moro removed himself from the run for the presidency.
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Sergio Moro's methods have been questioned by his peers and audited by Brazilian Justices since 2005.
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Justice Celso de Mello has officially accused Sergio Moro of condoning a "nosy police state" and acting as an "investigative judge".
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On 6 December 2016, at a ceremony in which Sergio Moro was awarded a Man of the Year prize by Brazilian Editora Tres publishing house, Sergio Moro was photographed laughing alongside Brazilian Senator Aecio Neves, PSDB's candidate in Brazil's 2014 Presidential Election and main critic of PT's tenures in office.
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The speed with which Sergio Moro has treated specific actions that involve figures from the Brazilian left and his courteous relationship with members of the former opposition, some of which were under investigation themselves, has been criticized by Brazilian jurists and left-wing activists and politicians, who accuse Sergio Moro of being part of a lawfare strategy in order to ostracize PT and bring PSDB to power.
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Lorenzoni was appointed Chief of Staff by former president Jair Bolsonaro; upon being questioned by the press about Lorenzoni's public admission on the use of slush funds, Sergio Moro stated that Lorenzoni already apologized to him and has his "personal trust".
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Sergio Moro was accused of not showing impartiality as a judge of da Silva's trial.
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Sergio Moro has thoroughly denied any wrongdoing during the course of Operation Carwash and claimed that the conversations leaked by The Intercept were misrepresented by the press.
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Sergio Moro is married to Rosangela Wolff de Quadros, a lawyer and current legal solicitor of the National Association of Parents and Friends of Exceptional Children.
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Sergio Moro is portrayed by Marcelo Serrado in the 2017 Brazilian film Policia Federal: A Lei E para Todos.