The investigation into the participation of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in a coup plan to remain in power even after his electoral defeat has concluded. The information comes from the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), which, in an opinion sent to the Federal Supreme Court (STF), specified that the investigation “is close to conclusion”.
The Federal Police interviewed key investigators and analyzed documents and devices seized as part of the Tempus Veritatis operation, launched in early February. With this the story moves towards its conclusion. The next step is the submission of the final investigation report.
The G1 portal was the first to disseminate the information, confirmed by Estadao. The excerpt from the PGR demonstration figures in the decision of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Supreme Court, who ordered the release of Bolsonaro’s former aide-de-camp, Colonel Marcelo Câmara.
OR Estadao had access to the order. “With regards to the criminal investigation, the precautionary measures of personal search and seizure granted in the documents have been completed, guaranteeing the preservation of the contents of documents and devices relevant to the investigations. The statements of the main objectives and the investigation have been collected is being concluded, which reduces the possibility of undue interference in the criminal proceedings,” the PGR states.
Whistler
The investigation into a coup attempt was opened on the basis of information provided by Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, also a former aide-de-camp of Bolsonaro, who signed an award-winning collaboration agreement.
So far there are two signs implicating Bolsonaro. The first is audio sent by Cid that suggests the former president helped write and edit a draft of the coup. The second is the testimony of General Marco Antônio Freire Gomes, former commander of the Army, who attributes to Bolsonaro the organization of meetings with the commanders of the Armed Forces to discuss “hypotheses of using legal institutions such as GLO (Guarantee of Law and ‘Order), state of defense and siege in relation to the electoral process”.
The former president was called to testify, but remained silent. The PF has scheduled simultaneous hearings, to avoid combining versions and catching possible contradictions in the answers of the suspects. When the task force of delegates came face to face with the suspects of plotting the coup, 15 of them decided to remain silent.
Messages obtained during the investigation indicate that the coup plan was discussed by the former president’s allies. The former minister of the Cabinet of Institutional Security (GSI), General Augusto Heleno, defended, in a ministerial meeting, that the government should “turn the situation around” before the elections and spoke of probing the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin ) on the possibility of agents “infiltrating” the campaigns of Bolsonaro’s opponents.
Another suspicion is that the group misused the prerogatives of its positions to monitor authorities, including Moraes, during coup articulations.
When the PF presents the report, it may or may not request the indictment of the suspects. It will be up to the PGR to decide whether or not there are the elements to lodge a complaint. The Prosecutor’s Office may also request additional measures if it deems it necessary.
Yesterday Moraes granted provisional freedom to army colonel Marcelo Costa Câmara, Bolsonaro’s former aide-de-camp. In lieu of prison, Câmara will have to wear an electronic ankle bracelet and appear weekly at the Federal District Criminal Execution Court.
Precautions
Other precautionary measures imposed by the minister are that Câmara not be absent from Brasilia, not maintain contact with the other suspects in the investigation, not use social media and hand over his passport. The colonel is already at home, using electronic monitoring.
The defense had already requested the revocation of the arrest in February, but the request was rejected by Moraes. To the Estadao, lawyer Eduardo Kuntz said he was celebrating what he considered a “partial victory.” “Just as the pointlessness of the arrest was proven, the pointlessness of the client remaining in this investigation will also be proven,” the military defender said.
Câmara was a special advisor to the Presidency of the Republic and is considered a member of the team that provided Bolsonaro with information that would have helped him carry out the alleged coup. The investigation revealed that the former councilor was one of the members of the “Disinformation and attacks on the electoral system” unit, one of the six identified for planning the breakup, according to the PF.
The information is from the newspaper The State of S. Paolo.
Source: Terra
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