The man passed by a journalist from Globo and is arrested while trying to extort the deputy

Júlio Cesar de Oliveira Silva Rodrigues He was arrested on Saturday afternoon (28), accused of attempting to extort the state deputy of Rio de January Alexandre Knoploch (PL). The TV Globo Machinery official, the man was the producer of the Fantástico program and requested $ 10,000 from the parliamentarian so as not to reveal an alleged compromising relationship.

According to a video published by the deputy on social networks, Julius Caesar He even went to his brother of Knoploch Showing up as an employee of the station and then went to the politician’s office in the Rio Legislative Assembly (Alerj) to strengthen the financial charge. However, Knoploch gave the arrest voice of the suspicion and called the authorities.

“This individual, passing as an employee of the Giobo of Central journalism, said he had a story against me and tried to blackmail me by asking $ 10,000 to” resolve “the situation. What he found was a deputy with a clean conscience and the courage to face the crime.”declared the parliamentarian. In another publication, he underlined: “I want to clarify: I do not accept extortion, I do not accept coercion, I do not accept bandits infiltrated in the spaces of power. If he tried with me, he may have also tried with other parliamentarians. The truth will always prevail. Anyone who walks in the law is not afraid of the threat. “

Wanted, the TV Globo clarified in a declaration that Julius Caesar He was a collaborator of the company’s machinery and had been removed on medical leave since 2023. The station also stressed that the employee had no relationship with Fantástico or the journalism of the channel. “Given the severity of the facts, Globo made the decision to deactivate the employee”, He said the declaration.

After the arrest of the act, Júlio César was taken to the 5th police station in the center of Rio, where the case was recorded. In a statement, the civil police reported it “A state deputy brought to the unit a man who requested a sum of money so as not to reveal an alleged compromising relationship. In the face of the situation, the parliamentarian gave imprisonment.

The company now erases if the suspicion would have tried to apply the same blow against others. The defense of Júlio Cesar de Oliveira Silva Rodrigues has not yet spoken.

Source: Terra