The Supreme Court (TS) defends the application of harsher penalties against people proven to be involved in organized crime.

"We need to raise the bar, so that when we do this analysis, crime sees that, firstly, the space to commit is closed, and, secondly, if you manage to break through and commit it anyway, it's not worth it. Because the pleasure will be much less than the pain that will be inflicted", suggested the Coordinator of the Thematic Areas

Luís Júnior's position is seen as a bolder and more complementary measure to the usual arrests or detentions that have proved "ineffective". This takes into account the robustness of the criminal typology.

In addition, for Júnior it is crucial to implement mechanisms capable of blocking and removing the financial power of organized crime.

"Imprisonment alone has already shown that it is ineffective in fighting and stamping out organized crime, as long as it retains the advantages it has gained. Organized crime needs to prove the economic resources it accumulates from illegal activities, which it uses to strengthen itself," he said.

As he explained, it is with these resources that organized crime strengthens itself through investment in its structure, as well as through them that it entices and recruits new agents and opens up new lines of action.

"It uses these economic resources to weaken and corrupt our state institutions. Through these economic resources, it weakens the state's financial system, because at the end of the day, these illicit revenues are introduced into normal economic circuits," he noted.