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Sergio Moro, April 24, 2020

“O grande problema de realizar essa troca... Primeiro: havia uma violação a uma promessa que me foi feita inicialmente, que eu teria carta branca. Em segundo lugar, não havia um causa para essa substituição e estaria claro que estaria ali havendo uma interferência política na Polícia Federal”

Portal translation: The big problem with making this change... First: there was a violation of a promise made to me initially, that I would have carte blanche. Second, there was no cause for this replacement and it would be clear that there was political interference in the Federal Police

The translation is the portal's; the original text, in Portuguese, is the one that prevails.

Context
Moro explained why the change in the Federal Police (PF) leadership seemed unacceptable to him.
Where
Address · Resignation address from the Ministry of Justice (Brasília)
Verification
Checked against the journalistic record: Interferência na PF, fraude e demissão: veja dez frases de Moro, on Oct. 24, 2026. Excerpt selected by Gazeta (ES); full transcript not opened. The spelling "um causa" is from the original. This is an accusation by Moro; Bolsonaro contested it the same day (see fala:bolsonaro-2020-04-24-autonomia).
Topics
pf, autonomy
Mentions
Jair Bolsonaro, PF

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Sources

Interferência na PF, fraude e demissão: veja dez frases de Moro — A Gazeta (ES), Apr. 24, 2020 · original ↗

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Portal translation: Federal judge Sérgio Moro has accepted our invitation to the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. His anti-corruption, anti-organized crime agenda, as well as respect for the Constitution and the laws, will be our guide!

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Portal translation: We agreed, as I did with all the ministers: he will have autonomy in his ministry. Autonomy is not a sign of sovereignty. To all the ministers, and to him as well, I spoke of my veto power. The key positions would have to pass through my hands and I would give the green […]

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All statements by Sergio Moro · Identifier: fala:moro-demissao-2020-04-24-carta-branca