2023-08-19 03:01:00
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro denied this Friday that he had given orders to his aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, to sell the jewelry he received as a gift during official trips as head of state.
“I did not send anyone to sell anything,” Bolsonaro said in statements to the press and stressed that Cid, who has been in pretrial detention since May, had autonomy to make his decisions. He also tried to defend himself by claiming that a decree that was in force until 2021 allowed heads of state to appropriate pieces of jewelry, such as watches or necklaces received as gifts.
expose the truth
The far-right leader made these statements following Cid’s lawyer, Cezar Bitencourt, told various media outlets that his client was preparing to confess that he sold the jewelry under orders from the ex-president. The case refers to a set of objects of great value that were given to the retired Army captain on official trips to Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries, which he should have handed over to the State archives when he left power. According to the investigations, Bolsonaro sold some of these gifts through intermediaries, although his collaborators would have repurchased them once the State demanded their return.
The confession of the aide-de-camp may further complicate the already delicate legal situation of Bolsonaro, who is being investigated in various civil and criminal cases. All of this also coincides with the recent testimony given by a hacker in the parliamentary commission that investigates the riot at the beginning of the year, where he accused the far-right of seeking his services to try to invade the electronic voting systems and promise him a pardon in case he had problems with the Justice.
bank accounts
The judge of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes authorized the Police on Thursday to lift the banking and tax secrecy of the former president and his wife, Michelle Bolsonaro. The ruling responded to a request from the Federal Police (PF) that wants to investigate the accounts of both in search of suspicious transactions and find out if the money obtained from the sale of the jewelry reached the former head of state. The magistrate also gave the green light for the PF to request the US to lift the bank secrecy of those investigated who have accounts in that country.
Bolsonaro stated in his recent statements to journalists that he is not concerned regarding this court order, but admitted that it is a decision that bothers him. His wife Michelle denounced that “it is increasingly clear that this political persecution, full of juggling and inflated by the media, has the objective of tarnishing the name of my family and trying to make me give up. They will not succeed.” He also stated that it was not necessary to lift the banking secrecy and that it was enough to ask him because “those who owe nothing, fear nothing.”
New detainees
The Federal Police and the Brazilian Prosecutor’s Office launched this Friday an operation once morest the leadership of the Military Police of the Federal District, which produced half a dozen searches and seven arrests for being allegedly accomplices in the coup attempt on January 8. Among them are the Commander General of the Military Police, Colonel Klepter Rosa Gonçalves, and the former Commander Colonel Fabio Augusto Vieira.
The Prosecutor’s Office issued a statement in which it affirms that the detainees omitted their work responsibilities during the invasion, taking into account that this force depends on the national government to assume the security of the Esplanade of the Ministries, the Planalto Palace, the Congress and the Federal Supreme Court.
The investigation found that there was “deep ideological contamination” among the officers of the Military Police of the Federal District and that the police chiefs adhered to Bolsonarismo through “conspiracy theories regarding electoral fraud.” “According to the existing evidence, the defendants had prior knowledge of the risks and intentionally adhered to the foreseeable criminal result, breaching their functional duty to act,” the Prosecutor’s Office specified.
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