Brazil’s judiciary will not end systemic corruption unless society also demands change, the federal judge presiding over a massive graft investigation that may topple President Dilma Rousseff’s government said.
Judge Sergio Moro, a hero to many Brazilians who has recently been criticized for pushing the boundaries of the law, compared the investigation he oversees to Italy’s “Clean Hands” anti-bribery operation in the 1990s.
“Alone the justice system cannot resolve corruption, other institutions must work and the public must speak out,” Moro said on Tuesday evening at a conference where security was so tight that journalists were only allowed to record him with pen and paper.
A white collar crime expert who has written a book on money laundering, Moro said Italy is undoubtedly a better place because of the Clean Hands operation.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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