Brazil's Justice Minister Sergio Moro looks on during a ceremony at the Justice Ministry headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil June 13, 2019. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Justice Minister Sergio Moro said he would not resign over a scandal about leaked personal messages that raised doubts about his impartiality as the anti-corruption judge who jailed the country's former leftist president.
In an interview published on Friday, Moro told the Estado de S.Paulo newspaper that he was not worried that the corruption conviction against former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva would be overturned, which legal experts including the Brazilian Bar Association and some Supreme Court Justices say could happen.
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