by Ricardo Brito
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Justice Alexandre de Moraes, of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), decided to comply with a request from the Federal Police and postponed for another 60 days the inquiry investigating President Jair Bolsonaro for leaking a secret investigation conducted by the corporation , informed the court’s advisory on Monday.
Since August, Bolsonaro has been the target of this investigation after revealing on social networks the content of a secret inquiry into a hacker attack suffered by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) in 2018, months before the elections that year.
This inquiry resulted from a crime-report forwarded by the TSE and which had asked the STF to investigate the disclosure of confidential information by Bolsonaro, Deputy Filipe Barros (PSL-PR) and the Federal Police delegate who is in charge of investigations into hacker attacks, who was removed from the case.
Bolsonaro has denied wrongdoing. This is the fifth count of which the president is targeted by the Supreme and the TSE.
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