Army says it will provide all necessary information to the PF

Operation investigates military personnel involved in coordinating an alleged coup attempt; Bolsonaro is one of the targets

O Brazilian army stated this Thursday (8.Feb.2024) that he follows the operation launched by the PF (Federal Police) against the former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and allies, including senior officers and generals, for an alleged coup attempt to keep him in the Presidency of the Republic. Read below who the main targets are.

In a note sent to Power360the Force said that its collaboration corresponds to the provision of “all information necessary for the investigations carried out” by the corporation.

OPERATION TEMPUS VERITATIS

The PF (Federal Police) unleashed this Thursday (Feb 8, 2024) an operation against former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and allies for an alleged coup attempt during the former president's administration. The Justice determined for the former head of the Executive to hand over his passport to the PF.

See below the main targets of the operation:

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Former president Jair Bolsonaro was also one of the targets; he must hand over his passport to the PF within 24 hours

Walter Braga Netto, former minister of the Civil House, was also a candidate for vice president of Jair Bolsonaro

Valdemar Costa Neto, president of PL and former federal deputy; He was arrested in the act for illegal possession of a weapon during a PF operation on this 5th

General Augusto Heleno, former minister of the GSI (Institutional Security Office)

Former Minister of Justice Anderson Torres served in the position during the Jair Bolsonaro government; he was Secretary of Public Security of the DF during the 8th of January

Filipe Martins, former advisor for International Affairs to the Presidency

General Stevan Teófilo Gaspar de Oliveira, former head of Coter (Army Land Operations Command)

Admiral Almir Garnier, former Navy commander during the Bolsonaro government

Bolsonaro's former defense minister, Paulo Sérgio Nogueira de Oliveira

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The agents carried out 33 search and seizure warrants, 4 preventive arrest warrants and 48 alternative measures, such as the prohibition of maintaining contact with the others being investigated, the prohibition of leaving the country, with the delivery of passports within 24 hours and suspension the exercise of public functions.

The searches were carried out in Amazonas, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Paraná, Goiás and the Federal District. The legal measures were issued by the STF (Supreme Federal Court).

In notethe PF said that the operation investigates “criminal organization that acted in the attempted coup d'état and abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, to obtain a political advantage by maintaining the then President of the Republic in power”.

See images of the searches in Brasília recorded by the photographer Power360 Sergio Lima: