Meeting took place on June 16; according to the agency, the deputy wanted to congratulate Corrêa for taking over as head of the body
The general director of Abin (Brazilian Intelligence Agency), Luiz Fernando Corrêa, had a meeting outside the official agenda with the federal deputy Alexandre Ramagem (PL-RJ). The congressman headed the agency during the government of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and had his name involved in an operation investigating an alleged illegal espionage scheme.
The meeting between Corrêa and Ramagem took place on June 16, 2023 and was confirmed by Abin to the portal Metropolises. According to the agency, the meeting was requested by the deputy and there is no record on the official agenda due to failure or carelessness on the part of the official responsible for publishing the information for public consultation.
According to Abin, the meeting was “protocol”. It allowed Ramagem to personally congratulate Corrêa for taking on the role of general director of the agency. He was named at the end of May. Abin stated that the agency's Institutional Relations team and the general director “received or met in Congress with 58 parliamentarians in 2023”.
Ramage was the target, last Thursday (January 25), of the PF operation (Federal Police) investigating alleged illegal espionage carried out by Abin. He headed the body from July 2019 until March 2022. The operation was authorized by the minister of the STF (Supreme Federal Court) Alexandre de Moraes.
In the decision (complete – PDF – 313 kB), there is a PF report that indicates an instrumentalization of Abin under the command of Ramagem. The deputy denied irregularities and said that a “core” of the PF tries to incriminate him “no evidence”.
Moraes authorized it on Monday (29th January) search and seizure operations against the Rio de Janeiro councilor Carlos Bolsonaro (Republicans). According to the PF, he participated in the “political core” of the criminal organization allegedly formed by Abin employees who monitored authorities without judicial authorization.
The PF report, released on Monday (January 29), indicates that the corporation identified a message in which a politician's advisor asks “a help” from the Abin (Brazilian Intelligence Agency) with investigations against Bolsonaro and their 3 children. The conversation is between Luciana Paula Garcia, Carlos' former advisor, and Ramagem.
The decision, however, contains some ambiguities. The message, for example, is reproduced shortly after the minister cited several alleged irregularities in October 2020. The date of the conversation between Ramagem and Luciana is Tuesday, October 11th. On the calendar during Bolsonaro's mandate there is only one October 11th on a Tuesday in 2022 (and not in 2020). In other words, Ramagem would already be a federal deputy elected by Rio and would no longer head Abin. Understand more in this report.
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