07/22/2024 – 7:30
Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) mocked on Saturday, the 20th, the release of audio recordings in which former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) outlines strategies to free him from the “rachadinhas” investigation. Alongside his father on the stage of the pre-campaign event of federal deputy Carlos Jordy (PL-RJ) in Niterói, in the metropolitan region of the State of Rio, Flávio said that “everyone is breaking Bolsonaro’s confidentiality.”
At the event, the senator read a letter from a supporter who wrote that she loves Bolsonaro. “I just received it from someone. So you open the letter, it was meant for you, president, but I took the liberty of opening it. I broke your confidentiality. Everyone is breaking it, there is no official authorization, so I broke your confidentiality too,” said Flávio.
SECRECY
A week ago, Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) lifted the confidentiality of the recording of a meeting that took place in 2020 between Bolsonaro, General Augusto Heleno, then head of the Institutional Security Office (GSI), and Alexandre Ramagem, then head of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin), as well as two lawyers who defended the then-president’s son. In the audio, the five outline strategies to nullify the investigation into the rachadinhas, an investigation that threatens Flávio. Ramagem is a pre-candidate for mayor of the capital of Rio de Janeiro for the PL, and received public support from Bolsonaro last Friday, at a platform in Tijuca, in the north of Rio.
Contrary to what the senator said on Saturday, the release did have official authorization from the Supreme Court justice. The judge decided to lift the confidentiality of the audios because targets of the fourth phase of Operation Last Mile requested access to the case files. For Moraes, this could encourage partial release or even manipulation of the recording, which would “harm the correct information provided to society.”
After the audio was released, Bolsonaro’s advisor and lawyer Fábio Wajngarten came out in defense of the former president, saying that the conversation “only reinforces how much the president loves Brazil and its people.” He specifically cited a section taken from the audio in which Bolsonaro says he is not seeking favors from anyone.
Flávio and Jair were in Niterói to support a rally in support of Jordy’s pre-candidacy for mayor of the city in the metropolitan region of Rio. The federal deputy focused his speech on criticizing the current federal government and said that people “miss” Bolsonaro’s presidency.
Since the content of the meeting between pro-Bolsonaro politicians came to light, the Bolsonaro clan and its allies have publicly stated that they are being persecuted. Flávio accused some members of the Federal Police and the Public Prosecutor’s Office of abusing their authority.
The information is from the newspaper The State of S. Paulo.
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