“I know the risks I take on Brazilian soil.But we can’t give up,” said former President Jair Bolsonaro, after several days of bad news. Klepter Rosa Gonçalves, in charge of the Brasilia Military Police (PM), was arrested this Friday and charged with Saudi Arabian jewelery along with six other members of that force. not having prevented thousands of supporters of the former Army captain from attacking on January 8 Congress, Presidency, and Supreme Court headquarters on January 8. For the prosecution, it was not a lack of expertise. High command of the Prime Minister of the capital “ideological alignment“with, among other things, the most radical Bolsonarism, which demands that the military take action and prevent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from remaining in power.
The arrest of the seven, including former commander Colonel Fabio Augusto Vieira, shows that progress has been made in clarifying the events of 8E. they are accused coup attempt, damage to property and neglect of duty. The harmony between the police and the conspiratorial state of the far-right has reached such a point that, according to the prosecution, the police exchanged “coup-like” messages on their phones and shared this idea with Bolsonaro and his entourage. That Lula won the election badly. “According to the available evidence, the defendants have prior knowledge of the risks and they deliberately adhered to the foreseeable criminal outcome by failing to fulfill their functional duties,” the prosecutor’s office said. Anderson Torresholding the same position in Bolsonaro’s government.
Statement given by members of the Prime Ministry a few hours before his arrest hacker on the parliamentary committee investigating the rebellion. The anonymous informant accused Bolsonaro of trying to invade electronic voting systems.
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The former captain was disqualified from holding elective posts until 2030 for questioning election transparency. In turn, he has several pending lawsuits, including the 8E events and the lawsuit filed over the jewelery scandal that Saudi Arabia gave to the Brazilian State and tried to turn into a personal legacy.
According to Mônica Bergamo, columnist for the Folha de São Paulo newspaper, Bolsonaro’s entourage does not believe that the former president may be arrested any time soon. I can’t show it.” One of these reasons is that the former president received 58.2 million votes in the 2022 election, closer to Lula.
“We live in difficult times” But Bolsonaro recognized it this Friday. These difficulties were exacerbated by the judicial problems faced by his former deputy, Colonel Mauro Cid, who is now in precautionary detention. The former president denied that he had instructed him to sell the gifts. He stated that Cid had the autonomy to make his decisions. Bolsonaro spoke after the lawyer of his former deputy, Cezar Bitencourt, reported that his client was preparing to confess to these operations at the direction of the president. This Friday, however, Bitencourt took a step back. Seriously wasn’t going to admit it. I would just make some “explanations” in front of the investigators.
In this context, De Moraes Remove the banking and tax secrecy of former captain and wife Michelle Bolsonaro. The President of the Supreme Court granted the request of the Federal Police (PF).