The accused accused of being part of the “crucial nucleus” are questioned by the STF on the plot to keep Bolsonaro in power after the defeat in 2022. Cid confirms the points of the complaint and the branch denies “Parallel Abin”. Power after the defeat in the 2022 elections. The testimonies should last until next Friday (06/13).
Who are questioned by the defendants?
The seven defendants listened to in this phase are accused of belonging to the so -called “crucial nucleus” of the plot of the coup, according to the complaint filed by the office of the Prosecutor General (PGR):
Mauro Cid, Lieutenant Colonel of the Army and former orders of the former President Bolsonaro- (deposed on 09/06)
Alexandre Ramagem, federal deputy and former director of Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) – (deposed on 09/06)
Almir Garnier, former navy commander
Anderson Torres, former minister of justice
Augusto Heleno, former minister of the institutional security office (GSI)
Jair Bolsonaro, former President of the Republic
Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, former Minister of Defense
Walter Braga Netto, former Defense Minister and former deputy on Bolsonaro Plate in 2022
The main points of Mauro Cid’s interrogation: “Bolsonaro saw the draft score”
Monday (06/09), Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid was the first accused to testify, answering questions that had already been treated in his rewarded relationship. Cid confirmed that there was a coup attempt and “he witnessed most of the facts, but he did not participate in them”. The military, however, denied having a preliminary knowledge of the scammers’ attacks of January 8, 2023. The military also denied having been the target of any type of coercion to close his complaint.
Bolsonaro edited the coup d’état
Cid declared that Bolsonaro received the draft of a decree at the end of 2022 which provided for the creation of a commission to organize new elections. This project also mentioned the arrest of the Stf ministers and the members of the legislator. Cid said that Bolsonaro changed this extract from the document and only maintained the arrest of Minister Alexandre de Moraes. “He dried the document, in practice withdrawing the arrests of the authorities. Only the Lord [Moraes] I would be arrested, “Cid said.
Military involvement
Cid declared that there was pressure on the command of the armed forces to sign a document that decreed a state of defense or a state of siege. But, according to Cid, the commander of the Navy Admiral Almir Garnier was the only military commander who joined the plan.
Lieutenant Colonel also reported that General Estevam Theophilo, a former head of the command of the land operations and the accused in the Stf, told him that the army would have respected an order of state coup by Bolsonaro if the former president had signed a decree with the determinations.
Cid also confirmed that he received a general of the Army Reserve from the former Minister Braga Netto, a wines box full of liquidity that gives the Lieutenant Colonel Rafael de Oliveira-A a soldier to drive a group that planned to kill Moraes, the then present Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the deputy Gerald Alfmin.
Mauro Cid also reported that Braga Netto was the link between Bolsonaro and the fields installed in front of Barracks throughout the country.
Pressure to produce relatives against polls
Mauro Cid also said that Bolsonaro pressed in 2022, then the Minister of Defense Paulo Sérgio Nogueira to produce a “hard” relationship to launch suspicions about the smoothness of the electronic voting process.
“The expectation was that an electoral fraud was found. What we have always seen was a search to find fraud in the polls. With the fraud in the polls, the military could convince, saying that the elections were fraudulent and perhaps the situation changed,” Cid said.
However, the report provided by the military did not underline fraud in the system. “In the end, it was a middle ground, nor how Paolo Sérgio had scratched, nor as the president wanted,” Cid said.
The main points of the allocation of the branch: “The annotations against the polls were private”
The second accused who was subjected to an interrogation was Alexandre Ramagem, deputy federal and former director of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin). Ramagem was denounced on charges of using the organ structure to illegally spy on the disaffected by the former president.
Ramagem says there was no “parallel Abin”
In the testimony, Ramagem denied that there was a “parallel abin” responsible for the illegal monitoring of the authorities, including the Stf ministers. “I have never used any ABIN monitoring of any authority,” he said.
The former director also refuted that he had released false information on the polls
According to PGR’s complaint, Ramagem provided direct assistance to Bolsonaro which provides material to the president with false information on electronic polls. Ramagem, however, denied having sent Bolsonaro Word Files with false information to support the then president to feed the suspicions about the polls. “These are personal documents, they are private documents. There has been no dissemination, no references of this document. It was something private, with my private opinions,” he said.
What are the crimes indicated in the complaint presented by PGR?
Criminal organization: Association of four or more people in an orderly structure and characterized by the division of tasks the goal of obtaining an advantage of any type, through the practice of criminal crimes. Penalty penalty: from three to eight years of prison.
Violent abolition of the state of democratic law: to prove, with the use of violence or a serious threat, to abolish the state of democratic law, preventing or limiting the exercise of constitutional powers. Penalty: from four to eight years in prison.
Coup of State: try to testify, through violence or serious threat, the government has legitimately constituted. Penalty: from four to 12 years in prison.
Qualified damage: destroy, make or deteriorate something else, with violence and serious threat. Crime is also considered more serious if committed against public property or specific or serious entities. Penalty: from six months to three years in prison.
Declared of the heritage: destroy, make or deteriorate the well specially protected by law. Pain from one to three years of prison.
Subsequent stages
The interrogation of the defendants is the last phase of the teaching phase of the criminal proceeding that is developed in the Supreme Court.
The interrogations are closed, both the defense and the accusation may request to request complementary steps, as testimonies from new witnesses and requests for documents. After this phase, the defense and accusation must present their final accusations within 15 days.
In the next phase, Minister Raporter of the case, Alexandre De Moraes, will prepare his vote and release the case for the trial by the first class of the Supreme Court. The process will be marked by the president of the class, Cristiano Zanin. The members of the class – Zanin, Moraes, Carmen Lúcia, Luiz Fux and Flávio Dino – will decide the sentence or acquittal of the defendants.
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Source: Terra

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