With a work focused on the events of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL), the Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPMI) of January 8 approved on Thursday 24 the violation of the banking and tax secrecy of the deputy Carla Zambelli (PL-SP ) and hacker Walter Delgatti Neto. Arrested in early August, Delgatti implicated Bolsonaro and Zambelli in trying to hack into the electronic ballot box system and, in a statement to the CPMI itself last week, raised suspicions about the former president’s involvement in a coup plot state.
The members of the commission also decided to recall Bolsonaro’s former assistant, lieutenant colonel Mauro Cid, and to approve the summoning of the former president’s adviser, second lieutenant Osmar Crivelatti. In July Cid attended the CPMI and remained silent: he didn’t even answer how old he is. Yesterday, the military repeated the same strategy in another collegiate committee, the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) on Undemocratic Acts, set up in the Legislative Chamber of the Federal District to investigate the acts of coup in Brasilia.
The CPMI’s requests regarding Bolsonaro’s allies have been approved en bloc. During the session, the president of the college, deputy Arthur Maia (União Brasil-BA), proposed that the reading of the final report of the CPMI take place on 17 October.
Repentance
After approving the requirements, the collegiate heard another name related to the former president. Army sergeant Luís Marcos dos Reis, a former advisor to Bolsonaro, said he participated in the attacks on the tri-power headquarters, but he regrets it. He also stated that there is no type of security that prevents radicals from entering public buildings. “I went up the ramp (of Congress), it was full of people there, I took the picture and went home,” the soldier told the commission’s lawmakers.
Reis is suspected of having paid former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro’s bills with money transferred from a building materials company that had contracts with the Bolsonaro government. When questioned on the matter, the sergeant opted for the right to remain silent, as his version was given in testimony before the Federal Police.
“There is a lot of confusion in this tangle of financial transactions,” said collegiate rapporteur, Senator Eliziane Gama (PSD-MA). According to her, the commission is trying to learn the origin of the money it helped finance on January 8.
Operation Come
Reis has been in prison since May on charges of participating in Bolsonaro’s vaccination card fraud scheme – Cid was arrested in the same operation. As shown the Estadao, the brigadier paid 3.3 million Brazilian real into his accounts and transferred part of the sum to Mauro Cid, in what were identified by the Council for the Control of Financial Activities (Coaf) as atypical movements. The military received R$13,000 a month. The sergeant justified the movements in his accounts as part of a “consortium”.
In the Legislative Chamber of the Federal District, Mauro Cid affirmed that, upon indication of his defence, he will make use of the constitutional right to remain silent. The testimony of the former Bolsonaro aide was the first under the guidance of the lawyer Cezar Bitencourt.
Last week, the defender said his client had confessed to having participated in the suspected scheme of embezzlement and illegal sale of jewels received by Bolsonaro in his capacity as president of the republic. Later, however, the lawyer changed his story. “I’ll do 20 or 30 versions, I can say what I want,” Bitencourt said in an interview with Estadao.
Assignments
Before announcing silence, the CID read a short speech to the deputies. He said he was not appointed Bolsonaro’s assistant for political reasons. He also specified that the functions of his office include the receipt of correspondence received from the President of the Republic. “We did not question what was discussed in the respective agendas and meetings. It was not my job to analyze the proposals of supporters,” said the lieutenant colonel.
Source: Terra
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