The prosecutor General Office (PGR) requested Tuesday 10, the opening of an investigation against the former tourism minister Gilson Machado. He is suspected of trying to obtain a Portuguese passport for Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, former orders of Jair Bolsonaro (PL), leave Brazil. The PGR has manifested itself in favor of an investigation by the federal police (PF) on the case.
Mauro Cid is a defendant in the criminal action of the Supreme Court (STF), who investigates an attempt at a coup after the 2022 elections.
Gilson Machado said Estadão who did not receive the quotation from the Federal Police or from the prosecutor’s office and who only learned investigations from the press.
Second CNN BrazilThe former Tourism Minister of Jair Bolsonaro would have acted, on May 12, 2025, to obtain the shipment of a Portuguese passport at the Portuguese consulate in Recife (PE). In addition, the former minister promoted, through his Instagram profile, a money donation campaign for Bolsonaro, who also attracted the attention of the federal police.
In May of this year, Machado declared on social networks that the former president needs help to pay doctors, lawyers and send money to his son, Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP), who moved to the United States. This campaign was a kind of reinterpretation of the 2023 “Kitty”, which collected over $ 17 million through pix, according to the financial ACTIVES CONTROL BOARD (Coaf) report. Eduardo recorded a video by thanking the campaign, but refusing Gilson’s financial help.
The former minister denied the accusations of having helped Mauro Cid to leave the country and claimed to have contacted the Portuguese consulate in May to help his father, Carlos Eduardo Machado Guimarães, to renew his passport.
Source: Terra
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