On January 8, the CPMI will hear from a businessman suspected of financing attacks against public buildings

On January 8, the CPMI will hear from a businessman suspected of financing attacks against public buildings


Argino Bedin’s family donated R$160,000 to former president Jair Bolsonaro’s re-election campaign and owns 15 trucks that went to the army headquarters after Lula’s election victory

BRASILIA-A Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPMI) of the Acts of 8 January The entrepreneur Argino Bedin, suspected of having financed the attacks on the buildings of the Three Powers. The testimony is scheduled for 9 am, and will be broadcast on the channel Youtube from the House of Representatives Comes from Federal Senate.

Bedin, who will be questioned by parliamentarians as a witness, had his bank accounts blocked by order of the minister of Federal Supreme Court (STF) Alexander of Moraes, in November last year. He is part of a group of businessmen suspected of financing anti-democratic acts such as blockades and road barriers after the former president’s defeat. Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in the presidential elections.

A survey of Estadao based on documents from the Civil Police of the Federal District (PCDF) and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) demonstrated that the Argino family, which is traditional in the soy agri-food sector SmileIn Mato Grosso, donated R$160,000 in transfers to Bolsonaro’s re-election campaign. Furthermore, it was found that 15 trucks traveled to the army headquarters after the president’s victory Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) belonged to the Bedin.

In September 2020, the entrepreneur received, in Sorriso, Bolsonaro and a presidential delegation made up of the then Minister of Infrastructure and now governor of St. Paul, Tarcisio de Freitas (Republicans), and the former head of the Institutional Security Office (GSI) General Augusto Heleno, who was the last deponent to appear at the CPMI, last week. In that visit to Mato Grosso, which took place during the first months of the covid-19 pandemic, the former president stated that the state “did not bend” and criticized the social isolation policies adopted at that time.

Toffoli decides that the entrepreneur can remain silent

The requests to summon Bedin to the CPMI were filed by the commission rapporteur, senator Eliziane Gama (PSD-MA) and MP Carlos Veras (PT-PE). Veras stressed that Argino is known in Mato Grosso as the “father of soybeans” and justified his statement to the council with suspicion of coup financing.

“Known in the State of Mato Grosso as the ‘father of soybeans’, Argino Bedin is a landowner and partner of at least nine companies whose accounts were frozen by decision of Minister Alexandre de Moraes. Therefore, the citation of Mr. Argino Bedin is important so that can this CPMI investigate and collect relevant information to reveal the real perpetrators of January 8, 2023?, Veras said.

This Monday 2nd the minister of the STF The days of Toffoli granted the businessman the right to remain silent and communicate with his lawyers during his testimony to the CPMI. Toffoli instead denied the habeas corpus request made by Bedin’s defense, which requested authorization not to attend the hearing.

“I grant in part the request for an injunction to guarantee the patient’s constitutional right to silence, including the privilege against self-incrimination, not to answer, if he wishes, potentially incriminating questions put to him, as well as the right to be assisted by their lawyers and to communicate with them during the investigation,” Toffoli said.

Source: Terra

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