2023-08-18 19:33:00
the brazilian hacker Walter DelgattiNetto accused Jair Bolsonaro of having urged him to interfere with the electronic polls following the former president lost the elections at the end of 2022. The revelation of the computer expert before the electoral Court of Brazil is part of one of the many investigations once morest the former president, in this case, for the alleged role he would have played in the assault on the government headquarters in Brasilia following the assumption of Lula da Silva.
Delgatti Netto, 33, rose to fame for his ties to Brazilian politics and justice, two intrinsically related worlds. It was in 2021, when he leaked conversations between prosecutors with the former judge Sergio Moropromoter of the mega cause of corruption known as Operation Lava Jato, who would have conspired to imprison then former president Lula da Silva.
The high impact of the computer leak carried out by Delgatti Netto was such that it was compared with the information regarding the US military actions that Julian Assange and Edward Snowden leaked through Wikileaks; and even the former president Dilma Rousseff considered it “an important person for the history of BrazilTwo years later, the man from the state of São Paulo faced Justice once more following being arrested at the beginning of August, accused of having broken into the judicial system at the request of Bolsonaro.
Who is Walter Delgatti Netto?
Also know as “the hacker from Araraquara” o “red” (red) because of his hair color, Walter Delgatti Neto is a law student and computer expert living in Araraquara, São Paulo. According to what he told Brazilian media, since he was a boy he worked with computers, a skill he developed in part thanks to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) that he was later diagnosed with.
“I installed programs to get people’s passwords. It’s a gift I have. ADHD made me like that part of computing, but I never thought regarding studying computer science because I thought that ‘I already knew everything‘“, he told in a testimony collected by UOL.
In 2019 he was arrested for hacking the Telegram messaging application and exposing millions of dialogues of public figures. Among them, there were also messages belonging to the president’s family Jair Bolsonaro. He even managed to access private data from Bruna Marquezinethe actress who was the soccer player’s girlfriend Neymar, and said he did not want to divulge privacy. Since then, this systems autodidact became a target of the cybercrime section of the Brazilian Federal Police and spent almost three years in prison.
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“Moro’s Hacker”
Even more so since, as part of the leak of private messages, he accessed the chats between Lava Jato prosecutors and the then federal judge Sergio Moro, who account for the conspiracy for imprison the leader of the Workers’ Party (PT), Lula da Silva, whose arrest and ban paved the way to the presidency for Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. “I always thought that this information regarding Lava Jato was of public interest, I have never leaked anything that is from the private sphere of people,” Delgatti argued in a interview with the portal Brazil 247.
In addition, he assured that although he voted for Bolsonaro in 2018 and felt “admiration“for the judicial investigation that unmasked the mega cause of corruption, felt “let down” by prosecutors. The leak of this information that revealed the framework behind the imprisonment of the PT leader resulted in Morowho was Bolsonaro’s minister, was declared suspicious and lose much of the prestige it had.
Three months ago, Delgatti, who must support his only daughter’s pension, had a job interview at a software company. They offered a salary of seven thousand reais but it did not prosper since “nobody wants to have ‘Moro’s hacker’ in their company,” according to what he declared. Since then he has stayed away from social networks, he claimed to be a “repentant lavajatista” in the elections he voted for the PT. “I want to have a social network in my name and have a voice so I can defend myself and tell my side of the story“, said.
The exchange with Jair Bolsonaro
In his statement before the Joint Parliamentary Commission of Investigation (CPMI), Delgatti Netto assured that he met with Jair Bolsonaro in August 2022. According to his statement, Bolsonaro would have asked him to build a false code to interfere with electronic ballot boxes, that they give mistake on the day of the vote and that “its weaknesses” would be exposed.
In return, Bolsonaro would have offered a reprieve in case of being discovered. “Rest assured, if by any chance someone arrests you, I will have the judge detained.“, were the words of the former president according to Delgatti Netto. This would have occurred in line with the attacks that the former president sustained once morest the voting system during his 2022 electoral campaign and that earned him a conviction and disqualification from running for elections for eight years, issued in June of this year.
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In another part of his statement, Delgatti assured that Bolsonaro later asked him to implement a “bug”, a hidden monitoring, to intercept the telephone communication of the supreme judge and president of the Superior Electoral Tribunal, Alejandro de Moraes, one of the “enemies ” that Bolsonaro claimed during the campaign. The request would have been made by phone through the diputada Carla Zambelli, who had met Delgatti in a restaurant in the interior of São Paulo.
“There has never, ever been a wiretap, or any illegal or non-republican activity, once morest any political entity in Brazil by the president’s main circle,” Fabio Wajngarten, the former president’s defense attorney, said following Delgatti’s statement.
Bolsonaro, who was recently convicted by the electoral court and will not be able to run for the next presidential elections for publicly attacking the Brazilian electoral system, has several open fronts in the courts. Among other cases, the highest court is investigating an alleged role in the acts of vandalism committed once morest the offices of the Presidency, Congress and the Federal Superior Court by a crowd of his followers, on January 8 in Brasilia.
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