The Federal Police of Brazil has accused the former president this Thursday Jair Bolsonaro and 37 other people from crimes of violent abolition of the rule of law, coup attempt Icriminal organization to keep him in power after the October 2022 elections. The report, of more than 800 pages, compiles evidence, bank and telephone records, statementsarrests, searches and other information obtained in almost two years of police investigation. Now, it will be handed over to Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes, in charge of the judicial process.
In addition to Bolsonaro, his former Minister of Defense has also been named, Walter Braga Netto; the former director of intelligence Alexandre Ramagem; the former head of Security of the Presidency Augusto Heleno Ribeiro and the president of the Liberal Party, Valdemar Costa Neto. A total of up to 35 people. All of them are accused of attempted coup d’état, a charge that carries prison sentences. up to 12 years in prison; membership in a criminal gang, with up to eight years in prison; and violent abolition of the rule of law, with maximums of eight years.
The research points to several events that occurred during the election campaign and once those October 2022 elections were over in which Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva emerged the winner and whose victory took days for Bolsonaro to recognize while the protests of his followers intensified.
It is a misinformation plot to attack the institutions and call into question the reliability of the electoral process and incite the military to take up arms. The financing of these actions and the operations to carry them out and the illegal use of the Intelligence agency are also being investigated.
With the Armed Forces
The investigation details how the Bolsonaro’s close core met with the high command of the Armed Forcestwo of whom opposed the plot. The then commanders of the Army, Marco Antônio Freire Gomes, and the Air Force, Carlos de Almeida Baptista Júnior, stated before the Police that the plan had the approval of the former president. These revelations coincided with those of Bolsonaro’s former right-hand man, Colonel Mauro Cid, who after his arrest for falsifying Covid-19 vaccination cards collaborated with the authorities.
One of the meetings analyzed by the Police is the one that took place in the Alvorada Palace on December 7, 2022, close to the expiration of Bolsonaro’s mandate and with Lula as president-elect. In it, according to General Freire Gomes, a action plan which had the support of the then Navy commander, Almir Garnier Santos, who has also been accused.
The Police maintain that there are indications that Bolsonaro participated in the drafting of that decree which was intended to stop the transfer of power. Now the document must go through the Supreme Court before reaching the Prosecutor’s Office, which will decide what to do with it.
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