A delegate suspected of obstructing justice said in 2022 that he “fell in love” with Marielle’s work

Giniton Lages, who led the investigations until the arrest of Élcio Queiroz and Ronnie Lessa in 2019, was removed by the Civil Police and subject to search and seizure this Sunday 24th; he wrote a book about the case

Police chief Giniton Lages, the first to be tasked with investigating the murder of councilor Marielle Franco and driver Anderson Gomes at the Capital Homicide police station, was the subject of a search and seizure carried out by the Federal Police ( PF) this Sunday 24th, for “interrupting” the investigations. He was also removed from the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro by order of the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes. Giniton Lages published, in 2022, the book “Quem Matou Marielle?”, In which he says he “fell in love” with the councilor’s performance.

Police Commissioner Marco Antônio de Barros Pinto was also removed from public duties. According to the findings, the two acted in a way that “embarrasses” the investigation, according to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), and will have to wear electronic ankle bracelets. Weapons possession and passports were suspended.

Giniton Lages released a statement early this Sunday evening. He states that while conducting the investigation, he took all measures to solve the case “in his integrity”, which, according to him, was only possible because he was removed from the case the day after Ronnie Lessa’s arrest, the killer. , and Élcio de Queiroz., who drove the vehicle used in the execution.

“After the arrest there was a joint decision by the institutions to dismantle the investigation and, in a second phase, to search for the instigators. And, I underline, at no time was any suspect or line of investigation removed. And this would never have happened.” be”, said the delegate. “I underline that my work has always been carried out actively with the Public Administration and the Judiciary, respecting all the protocols for the exercise of the role of police chief”, he continued.

The PF launched Operation Murder Inc., which arrested MP Chiquinho Brazão (União Brasil), the councilor of the Court of Auditors of Rio, Domingos Brazão, and the former head of the civil police, Rivaldo Barbosa. The brothers are suspected of having ordered the murder, while Rivaldo Barbosa is suspected of planning the crime. The defense of the three denies their involvement in the crimes.

In addition to the arrests, the PF executed 12 search and seizure warrants, including those against Giniton Lages and Commissioner Barros Pinto. A few hours after the crime, in March 2018, Lages was appointed by Rivaldo Barbosa to lead the investigation. According to the PGR, both he and the police commissioner acted after the murder to “embarrass the investigation” and protect the real instigators.

They would create a routine of receiving anonymous information to divert the investigation. One of the attempts was to indict the militiaman Orlando Curicica and the councilor Marcello Siciliano, an attempt later excluded by an investigation by the Federal Police.

“The position of the two in the hierarchical chain of the criminal organization indicates that, despite not having participated in the preventive arrangement of the murder, both were fundamental to the success of the undertaking which guarantees the impunity of the crime to this day, since they were directly responsible for the investigation in the golden hours, which are crucial to any murder investigation,” the PGR said in an excerpt cited in Moraes’ decision.

“In this sense, the two were directly responsible for having orchestrated the negligence in capturing the television images of the place, in particular of the Sulamérica Congress Center and the adjacent establishments in Quebra-Mar, occasion in which we recall the weak justification for the defect of the codec released by Giniton in the midst of the investigation and trial, which demonstrates his deviant character and cynicism,” the opinion continues.

The delegate wrote a book about the case

Giniton Lages handled the first part of the investigation, which led to the arrest of retired military police sergeant Ronnie Lessa and former military police officer Élcio Queiroz in March 2019. Giniton was removed from the case the same day of arrests. At the time, then-Rio governor Wilson Witzel said he invited the police chief to do an exchange in Italy because the police officer was “exhausted.”

Queiroz said in a plea agreement last year that Lessa was responsible for the shootings that killed Marielle and Anderson. He also confessed to being driving the car in which the perpetrator was travelling. Ronnie Lessa also reported and underlined the involvement of the Brazão brothers as perpetrators of the crime. The plea agreement was approved on the 19th by the STF.

The Federal Police specifies in its report that Rivaldo Barbosa and Giniton Lages, despite having tried to divert the course of the investigation, arrested the perpetrators of the murder due to unbearable pressure from the press and society. However, they tried to adopt the argument that it was a hate crime to close the investigation without naming the perpetrators.

“This time, to curb the pressure imposed by civil society and the media, Rivaldo and Giniton, suddenly, as will be seen later, threw the perpetrators of the crime to the lions, accusing them of the ‘hate crime’ theory, for close the lid on the investigation and preserve the intellectual authors,” argues the PF.

Delegate Giniton Lages gave two interviews to Estadao In the last few years. In the first, in 2022, after the release of the book “Who killed Marielle?”, you said that you had listened to hours of personal conversations of the councilor who recorded the calls made and received on his cell phone.

“She was an absolutely ethical person, with goals, an excellent daughter, a dedicated mother, passionate about her work, who believed she was transforming people. Her relationship with her consultants, she took care of each of them, her relationship with her daughter, with her partner. So, really, there was no way not to fall in love with her,” Giniton declared at the time.

The second interview was given in July last year, when the case was already with the Federal Police. At the time, Élcio Queiroz had just concluded his plea deal. When asked why the prosecution only occurred after the PF’s intervention and four years after the arrest, Giniton Lages said that this could have happened at any time and that the federal police knew how to exploit a “window of opportunity” , that is, the weakening of the bond of loyalty between Queiroz and Lessa.

“You have to have intellectual fidelity with real life; this is not a Hollywood film where you push a button and things happen. The bond between the two was very solid and was only broken now, on the eve of the trial, and the Federal Police, with cunning, were able to seize the glimmer of opportunity, but we cannot fail to give due relevance to everything that was produced by Operation Lume (which led to the arrest of the two defendants in 2019), carried out by the Federal Police Police and the MPRJ,” he said.

The Attorney General’s Office and the Public Ministry of Rio de Janeiro also participated in Operation Murder Inc., as well as the support of the Secretariat of the Civil Police of Rio and the National Secretariat of Criminal Policies, an agency of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security.

Full note from delegate Giniton Lages

“During the period in which I chaired the police inquiry investigating the deaths of councilor Marielle and driver Anderson, I took all necessary steps to clarify the case.

From March 2018 to March 2019 the following were produced: 5,700 pages, distributed in 29 volumes; 230 witnesses/suspects were interviewed; Through violation of judicial secrecy, 33,329 telephone lines were analysed; 318 telephone lines were subjected to wiretaps, through a court order, as well as several operations carried out and monitored by me and my team.

The result of this work was the arrest of the perpetrators, which is widely documented in the case documents, and demonstrates all my dedication and professionalism. I underline that my work has always been actively carried out with the Public Administration and the Judiciary, respecting all the protocols for the exercise of the role of police commissioner.

After the arrest there was a joint decision by the institutions to dismantle the investigations and, in a second phase, to search for those responsible. And, I underline, at no time was any suspicion or line of investigation removed. And it never would be.

Our non-negotiable commitment has always been to resolve the case in its integrity, which was only possible because I was removed from the investigation the day after the arrests.”

Source: Terra

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