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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="">===</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style=""><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://theintercept.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=43fc0c0fce9292d8bed09ca27&id=a9c76b334b&e=613b87ca24" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Brazilian Car Wash Prosecutors Secretly Plotted to Leak Testimony to Influence Venezuelan Politics at Suggestion of Sergio Moro</a></strong><br style="" />Andrew Fishman, Leandro Demori, Amanda Audi</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An enemy of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with close ties to Brazilian prosecutors published leaked videos of depositions on the eve of gubernatorial elections.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://theintercept.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=43fc0c0fce9292d8bed09ca27&id=3a1377c54b&e=613b87ca24" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">READ MORE →</font></a></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/07/09/brazil-car-wash-sergio-moro-venezuela-maduro"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://theintercept.com/2019/07/09/brazil-car-wash-sergio-moro-venezuela-maduro</font></a></p><div class="SeriesBlock SeriesBlock--start" data-reactid="220" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding: 30px 20px; margin-right: -240.266px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: -20px; clear: left; border-top: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);"><div class="SeriesExcerpt" data-reactid="221" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: -20px;"><h2 class="SeriesExcerpt-title" data-reactid="222" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0.9375; margin: 0px; font-kerning: normal; font-feature-settings: "kern"; width: 235.063px; padding-left: 20px; 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</div></div><div class="PostContent" data-reactid="261" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 80px; line-height: 1.5;"><div data-reactid="262" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.1em; box-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px, rgb(17, 17, 17) 0px 4px 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">BRAZILIAN PROSECUTORS PLOTTED</span> <b>to leak confidential information from the Car Wash corruption probe to Venezuelan opposition figures at the suggestion of Justice Minister Sergio Moro, then the presiding judge for the investigation.</b> The private conversations revealing the plotting, which took place over the Telegram chat app beginning in August 2017, indicate that the prosecutors’ motivation was expressly political, not judicial: They discussed the release of compromising information about the Venezuelan government of Nicolás Maduro, which had just taken steps to reduce the power of opposition politicians and removed the country’s prosecutor general, a Maduro critic and ally of the Car Wash prosecutors.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It may be the case to make the Odebrecht deposition about bribes in Venezuela public. Is it here or with the PGR [Public Prosecutor]?” Moro wrote to Deltan Dallagnol, the coordinator of the Car Wash investigation, on the afternoon of August 5. Odebrecht is a Brazil-based construction company whose multinational, multibillion-dollar corruption scheme had been cracked open by the investigation.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dallagnol replied hours later, outlining their options: “It can’t be made public simply because it would violate the agreement, but we can send spontaneous information [to Venezuela] and this would make it likely that somewhere along the way someone would make it public.” Dallagnol continued: “There will be criticism and a price, but it’s worth paying to expose this and contribute to the Venezuelans.”</font></p><div class="img-wrap align-bleed large-bleed width-auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2em; line-height: 1; position: relative; transition: opacity 300ms linear 200ms; opacity: 1; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p class="caption overlayed" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.01em; word-spacing: -0.25em; display: inline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[ pixDeltan Dallagnol at a National Association of Tax Auditors of the Federal Revenue of Brazil seminar in São Paulo on Aug. 1, 2018.</font>
Photo: Suamy Beydoun/AGIF via AP</p></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Car Wash prosecutors had frequently discussed leaking directly to the then-deposed Venezuelan prosecutor general, an equivalent position to an American attorney general</b>. In the coming months, the deposed Venezuelan prosecutor general took to her blog and published secret evidence from the Car Wash case — a video of a deposition carried out by Brazilian investigators that was said to be in the hands of only the Brazilian prosecutors — on the eve of an important election.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A secret plot to leak information that would harm a foreign government is clearly outside of the mandate of the Brazilian Public Prosecutor’s Office — or a low-level federal judge.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The revelations of the discussion, published in partnership with the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper, come from an <a href="https://theintercept.com/series/secret-brazil-archive/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">archive of documents</a> provided exclusively to The Intercept Brasil by an anonymous source (<a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/brazil-archive-operation-car-wash/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">read our editorial statement here</a>). Previous revelations from the archive have rocked Brazilian politics. The exchange between the judge and the prosecutor is one of <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/07/05/scandal-for-bolsonaros-justice-minister-sergio-moro-grows-as-the-intercept-partners-with-brazils-largest-magazine-for-new-expose/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">many such conversations</a> revealed by The Intercept suggesting that Moro <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/brazil-lula-operation-car-wash-sergio-moro/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">overstepped</a> his role as a judge to act as the <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/06/17/brazil-sergio-moro-lula-operation-car-wash/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">de facto leader</a> of the Car Wash task force, a level of coordination which is illegal under Brazilian law.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Car Wash probe began as a money laundering investigation in 2014, but it quickly became apparent that the initial targets were working on behalf of executives with the Brazilian energy giant Petrobras.</b> The executives were demanding kickbacks to approve overinflated contracts and giving a cut of the kickbacks to politicians. More than five years later, the case has led to 244 convictions, 184 state’s witnesses agreements, and $3.4 billion in recovered assets; it revealed alleged corruption in 36 countries, mostly in Latin America. In almost all of these countries, local prosecutors signed agreements with the Brazilian Public Prosecutor to share information and pursue their own prosecutions. At least 13 current or former presidents have come under investigation, including Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was twice convicted on corruption-related charges.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Yet Moro and the Car Wash task force’s methods and impartiality have been called into question from nearly the beginning.</b> Recent revelations from The Intercept put the operation’s domestic reputation in serious doubt. A Brazilian Supreme Court minister said in <a href="https://veja.abril.com.br/politica/gilmar-se-forem-reais-dialogos-de-moro-sao-absurdos-e-podem-anular-penas/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">an interview</a> that the reporting could be grounds to vacate convictions. Some of the Car Wash prosecutors’ foreign partners have privately raised concerns that abuses by Moro and Brazilian prosecutors could taint their own cases.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Moro declined to comment on the chat transcripts showing plotting to leak to Venezuelan opposition figures. He cast doubt on the authenticity of the messages obtained by The Intercept, but does not outright deny the chats — a reaffirmation of the position he has adopted in recent weeks. “Even if the alleged messages quoted in the report were authentic, they would not reveal any illegality or unethical conduct, only repeated violation of the privacy of law enforcement officials with the aim of overturning criminal convictions and preventing further investigations,” he wrote in a statement.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Car Wash task force, based in Curitiba, the capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná, provided a similar response and would not comment on the specifics of the article. “The material presented in the article does not allow verification of the context and veracity of the messages,” they said in a statement.</font></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 1em 0px; font-kerning: normal; font-feature-settings: "kern";"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Our Actions Could Lead to More Social Upheaval and More Deaths”</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The idea to leak information that could damage Maduro’s government came at an extremely tense moment for international relations with Venezuela. By July 2017, the U.S. had threatened Maduro with <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-usa/trump-threatens-sanctions-if-venezuela-creates-constituent-assembly-idUSKBN1A22EJ" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">new sanctions</a> if Venezuela proceeded with plans to found a <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/venezuelas-nicolas-maduro-christens-new-constituent-assembly/a-40048975" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Constituent Assembly</a> — a new legislative body created to strengthen the government and undermine the opposition-controlled Congress. Maduro did establish the body, and a week later, President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/world/americas/trump-venezuela-military.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">threatened military action</a> — a first for a sitting U.S. president since Hugo Chávez became president of Venezuela in 1999, inaugurating 20 years of leftist rule in the country that frequently antagonized (and has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/apr/21/usa.venezuela" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">antagonized by</a>) the U.S.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Meanwhile, the 2016 impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, the center-left president who followed Lula in office, marked a deterioration of relations between Brazil and Venezuela. </b>Following the impeachment, Brazil’s new center-right government led the charge to have Venezuela suspended from Mercosur, a South American trade bloc. In December 2017, Venezuela <a href="https://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/em-resposta-venezuela-brasil-decide-expulsar-principal-diplomata-do-pais-22229999" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">expelled</a> the Brazilian ambassador in Caracas and, days later, then-President Michel Temer reciprocated. The relationship hit rock bottom this January, when far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/venezuela-politics-brazil/brazil-recognizes-guaido-as-venezuelas-interim-president-idUSE6N1TR02H" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">recognized</a> Venezuelan opposition leader <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/02/20/regime-change-we-can-believe-in-the-u-s-agenda-in-venezuela-haiti-and-egypt/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Juan Guiadó</a> as president and increasingly aligned his country with the U.S.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The unauthorized disclosure of confidential information by prosecutors could be a violation of Article 325 of Brazil’s criminal code, which allows for up to two years in prison for a public agent who “reveals a fact that they are aware of due to their position and that should remain secret, or facilitate its revelation.” And there were other risks, too: Odebrecht lawyers repeatedly complained to Brazilian prosecutors about leaks, saying that they could put lives at risk and compromise their ability to strike a deal with Venezuelan authorities — possibilities that the prosecutors acknowledged in internal chats as well.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Car Wash prosecutors’ discussion about leaking information to damage Maduro’s government came in the wake of the shake-up to Venezuela’s system of governance. Just hours before Moro’s message suggesting a leak, the newly appointed Constituent Assembly, formed as a way to subvert the opposition-controlled Congress, gathered for its first full day of deliberations. In one of the body’s first moves, it voted to <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/troops-encircle-chief-prosecutor-luisa-ortegas-office-170805130418407.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">remove </a>Luisa Ortega Díaz as prosecutor general, a post which she had held for nearly 10 years under Chávez and Maduro. Ortega had become an ally of the Car Wash investigation and, weeks earlier, she <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/venezuela-odebrecht/venezuela-prosecutors-to-indict-two-people-over-odebrecht-bribe-scheme-idUSL1N1K31UV" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">filed the first charges</a> in a related case, indicting two Maduro allies for allegedly receiving bribes from Odebrecht. Her decision infuriated Maduro.</font></p><div class="img-wrap align-bleed large-bleed width-auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2em; line-height: 1; position: relative; transition: opacity 300ms linear 200ms; opacity: 1; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p class="caption overlayed" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.01em; word-spacing: -0.25em; display: inline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[pix Venezuela’s ousted top prosecutor Luisa Ortega Díaz, left, arrives at the Colombian Congress in Bogota, Colombia, to address exiled members of the Venezuelan Supreme Court in a hearing against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro for his alleged involvement in the Odebrecht corruption case, on August 15, 2018.</font>
Photo: John Vizcaino/AFP/Getty Images]</p></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Car Wash team had hoped that Ortega would reveal this information through the Venezuelan justice system but with her removal from office, that no longer seemed possible — at least not through the courts.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Under threat from the Maduro government, Ortega went into self-imposed exile and, after a stop in Colombia, flew to <a href="http://www.mpf.mp.br/pgr/noticias-pgr/procuradora-geral-destituida-da-venezuela-diz-que-crise-no-pais-e-resultado-da-corrupcao" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">meet</a> Brazil’s prosecutor general in the capital, Brasília, on August 22. The messages obtained by The Intercept show what she wanted: to cooperate with Car Wash even though she no longer had the authority of her former title. “We witnessed an institutional rape of the Venezuelan Public Prosecutor’s Office,” <a href="https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mundo/2017/08/1912265-ex-procuradora-da-venezuela-diz-que-e-perseguida-para-nao-denunciar-corrupcao.shtml" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">said</a> Brazilian Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot, alongside Ortega at a press conference in Brasília. “Without independence, the Public Prosecutor’s office of our northern neighbor is no longer able to … conduct criminal investigations or act in court with independence.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Out of the spotlight, the task force had been discussing the subject of a possible leak intensely, debating whether the revelations would have potentially explosive consequences. “Realize that a civil war is possible there and any action by us could lead to more social upheaval and more deaths,” said Paulo Galvão, one of the Car Wash prosecutors, on August 5. His colleague Athayde Ribeiro Costa also demonstrated caution: “Imagine if we decide to do it and the madman orders the arrest of every Brazilian in Venezuelan territory.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dallagnol, the head prosecutor on the Car Wash task force, tried to assuage his colleagues’ fears, addressing Galvão by his initials. “PG, regarding risk, it’s something that is up to the Venezuelan citizens to ponder. They have the right to rebel,” Dallagnol wrote. He continued to lobby for action in Venezuela the following day:</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p></div></div><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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They reveal serious wrongdoing, unethical behavior, and systematic deceit about which the public, both in Brazil and internationally, has the right to know.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><a class="InstreamPromo InstreamPromo--promo" href="https://theintercept.com/series/secret-brazil-archive/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 40px 0px 40px -20px; padding: 20px 0px; display: inline !important; width: auto !important;"><span class="InstreamPromo-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 420px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; max-width: 420px; display: inline !important;"><span class="InstreamPromo-text-callout" andale="Andale" mono="Mono" monospace="monospace" font-weight="font-weight" normal="normal" color="color" rgb="rgb" display="display" inline="inline" important="important" font-size="font-size" px="px" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" line-height="line-height" margin-bottom="margin-bottom" text-transform="text-transform" capitalize="capitalize" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Read Our Complete Coverage</font></span></span></a></p></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="InstreamPromo InstreamPromo--promo" href="https://theintercept.com/series/secret-brazil-archive/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; margin: 40px 0px 40px -20px; padding: 20px 0px; width: auto !important;"><span class="InstreamPromo-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 420px; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; max-width: 420px;"><span class="InstreamPromo-text-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Secret Brazil Archive</font></span></span></a></p><div data-reactid="260" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These three articles were published today in The Intercept Brasil in Portuguese, and we have synthesized them into <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/brazil-car-wash-prosecutors-workers-party-lula/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">two English-language</a> <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/brazil-lula-operation-car-wash-sergio-moro/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">articles for The Intercept</a>. Given the size and global influence of Brazil under the new Bolsonaro government, these stories are of great significance to an international audience.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is merely the beginning of what we intend to be an ongoing journalistic investigation, using this massive archive of material, into the Car Wash corruption probe; Moro’s actions when he was a judge and those of the prosecutor Dallagnol; and the conduct of numerous individuals who continue to wield great political and economic power both inside Brazil and in other countries.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beyond the inherent political, economic, and environmental importance of Brazil under Bolsonaro, the significance of these revelations arises from the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/01/brazil-operation-car-wash-is-this-the-biggest-corruption-scandal-in-history" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">incomparably consequential actions</a> of the yearslong Car Wash corruption probe. That sweeping scandal implicated numerous leading political figures, oligarchs, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/world/americas/brazil-car-wash-corruption-temer.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Bolsonaro’s predecessor as president</a>, and <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-17/former-president-of-peru-shoots-self-in-head-as-police-close-in" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">even foreign leaders</a> in corruption prosecutions.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Most importantly, Car Wash was the investigative saga that led to the imprisonment of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva last year. Lula’s conviction by Moro, once it was quickly affirmed by an appellate court, <a href="https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2018/09/high-court-bars-lula-candidacy.shtml" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">rendered him ineligible to run for president</a> at a time when <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/04/16/lula-da-silva-is-in-jail-and-hes-still-brazils-leading-candidate-for-president-here-are-3-ways-that-could-turn-out/?utm_term=.b565bbe7a708" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">all polls showed that Lula</a> — who was twice elected president by large margins in 2002 and in 2006 before being term-limited out of office in 2010 with <a href="http://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2010/12/popularidade-de-lula-bate-recorde-e-chega-87-diz-ibope.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">an 87 percent approval rating</a> — was the frontrunner in the 2018 presidential race. Lula’s exclusion from the election, based on Moro’s finding of guilt, was a key episode that paved the way for Bolsonaro’s election victory.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Perhaps most remarkably, after Bolsonaro won the presidency, he created a new position of unprecedented authority, referred to by Brazilians as “super justice minister,” to oversee an agency with consolidated powers over law enforcement, surveillance, and investigation previously interspersed among multiple ministries. Bolsonaro created that position for the <a href="https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2018/11/bolsonaro-will-offer-superministry-to-operation-carwash-judge.shtml" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">benefit of the very judge who found Lula guilty</a>, Sergio Moro, and it is <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-46063656" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">the position Moro now occupies</a>. In other words, Moro now wields immense police and surveillance powers in Brazil — courtesy of a president who was elected only after Moro, while he was a judge, rendered Bolsonaro’s key adversary ineligible to run against him.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Car Wash prosecutors and Moro have been highly controversial in Brazil and internationally — heralded by many as anti-corruption heroes and accused by others of being clandestine right-wing ideologues masquerading as apolitical law enforcers</b>. Their critics have insisted that they have abused and exploited their law enforcement powers with the politicized goal of preventing Lula from returning to the presidency and destroying his leftist Workers’ Party, or the PT. Moro and the prosecutors have, with equal vehemence, denied that they have any political allegiances or objectives and have said they are simply trying to cleanse Brazil of corruption.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But, until now, the Car Wash prosecutors and Moro have carried out their work largely in secret, preventing the public from evaluating the validity of the accusations against them and the truth of their denials. That’s what makes this new archive so journalistically valuable: For the first time, the public will learn what these judges and prosecutors were saying and doing when they thought nobody was listening.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Today’s articles show, among other things, that the Car Wash prosecutors spoke openly of their desire to prevent the PT from winning the election and took steps to carry out that agenda, and that Moro secretly and unethically collaborated with the Car Wash prosecutors to help design the case against Lula despite serious internal doubts about the evidence supporting the accusations, only for him to then pretend to be its neutral adjudicator.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""></font></p>