The former aide left traces in emails, conversations via messaging apps and financial transactions that could compromise the former president
BRASILIA – The lieutenant colonel Mauro Cid had free access to the Plateau, was next to Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in interviews, lives and meetings, and was the right-hand man of the then President of the Republic in the four years of the last government. Investigated the alleged jewelry sale scheme received by the former chief executive on official trips, Cid left traces in emails, conversations via messaging apps and financial transactions that could compromise Bolsonaro.
For now, the confession, informed by the lawyer Cezar Roberto Bitencourt, responsible for the defense of the lieutenant colonel, will not take place. The criminal lawyer backed down and said his client tried to resolve “a problem” with the boss, but he denied acting on specific orders from Bolsonaro. However, other pieces are in the possession of Federal Police (PF) and Cid can turn from an ally into a headache for the former president.
Cid allegedly helped with jewelry sales and delivered money to Bolsonaro
Last 11, the Federal Police launched the Operation Luke 12:2, which targeted Bolsonaro aides. According to the investigations, they would have sold jewels and other valuables received on official trips from the Presidency of the Republic outside the country. The luxury items should have been included in the Union’s collection, but were omitted from the knowledge of public bodies, negotiated for the purpose of illicit enrichment and delivered in cash to the former CEO, according to the PF.
Mauro Cid would have sold it, also with the help of his father, the general Mauro Lorena Cid, overseas jewelry. According to the PF, one of the pieces sold by the former aide-de-camp was a Rolex watch, estimated at R$ 300,000 and received by Bolsonaro during a presidential trip to Saudi Arabia in 2019.
Among the emails recovered from the trash can of Mauro Cid’s account, obtained by the Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPMI) on January 8, there is the negotiation for the sale of the Rolex.
Attempts to sell the jewels were only stopped after the Stadium reveal, in March, that Bolsonaro’s aides attempted to enter Brazil illegally with a kit consisting of a necklace, ring, watch and a pair of diamond earrings delivered by the Saudi government to the then president and Michael Bolsonaro.
With the determination of accounts of the Judicial Union (TCU) for the return of another set of jewels, an operation was carried out to rescue the pieces by the former president’s allies. According to the investigation, Cid would have traveled to Miami, in the United States, to buy back the items in that package that had been sold in the United States.
in conversation with Marcello Camera, Special Counsel to the Presidency, obtained by the PF, the two talked about a jewelry set that would go missing from Michelle, and which could not be sold in the scheme. For Cid, “it’s just a shame because we’re talking $120,000.”
According to the investigators, the sums obtained from the sales were converted into cash and entered the former president’s personal assets, through oranges and without resorting to the formal banking system, with the aim of concealing the origin, location and ownership of the values. In another audio between Cid and Câmara, in January of this year, the former aide mentioned 25,000 dollars that were with his father and would have been destined for Bolsonaro.
“There’s $25,000 with my dad. I was seeing what was best to do with that money, bring it to ‘cash‘ There. My father even wanted to go there and talk to the president. (…) And then he could take it. Hand-delivered. But you can also deposit into the account (…). I think the fewer movements you take into consideration, the better, right?” said Mauro Cid.
Mauro Cid was the ‘handyman’ of the former president and former first lady
In the four years that Bolsonaro occupied the Planalto Palace, Cid was the former president’s chief assistant. The task is entrusted to an officer, who must be available to the Chairman in the exercise of his functions, as personal secretary of the Chief Executive Officer. During the period, the lieutenant colonel had free access to the presidential office, the Alvorada building and even the room occupied by the former CEO in hospitals after surgery.
The former aide-de-camp has been in prison since May 3, after being arrested in a PF operation investigating the insertion of false vaccination data against covid-19 into the system of Ministry of Health. According to the PF, the immunization certificates of the Cid’s wife, Gabriela Santiago, former president Bolsonaro and his daughter, Laura, 12, were allegedly tampered with on the eve of the presidential family’s trip to the United States in December last year. defeat in the elections.
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Tuesday 15, the Stadium disclosed that Cid spent US$43,000 on an international credit card between early January 2020 and late April 2023. Based on the average dollar exchange rate of each monthly bill, the amount is equivalent to almost R $ 200 thousand, not considering taxes. In the first four months of 2023 alone, bills amounted to US$11,700 (nearly R$61,000, excluding taxes).
In January of this year, when the aide-de-camp accompanied Bolsonaro to the United States, spending on the international credit card exceeded the soldier’s salary. His bill for that month amounted to US $ 6.5 thousand (almost R $ 34.2 thousand).
Source: Terra
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