MADRID, 26 (EUROPA PRESS)
The Federal Police (PF) of Brazil estimates in the investigation into the attempted coup d’état in the country that former President Jair Bolsonaro “planned, acted and had direct and effective control” of the coup plot to perpetuate himself in power.
The judge of the Supreme Court of Brazil Alexandre de Moraes has sent this Tuesday the Federal Police investigation into the alleged attempted coup d’état orchestrated by former President Jair Bolsonaro and his followers to the Prosecutor’s Office, which must now decide whether to present an accusation against the more than 30 suspects.
The size and complexity of the investigation, compiled in some 800 pages, means that the possible indictment of Bolsonaro and his closest core, including former Defense Minister Walter Braga Netto, will not arrive, if at all, until next month. February 2025, according to what sources from the Prosecutor’s Office have told G1.
De Moraes has lifted the secrecy of the investigation, although he has, however, maintained the confidentiality of the versions of Bolsonaro’s former ‘right-hand man’, Colonel Mauro Cid, as a collaborator.
Among the revelations of the extensive investigation, it appears, for example, that the Brazilian Federal Police concluded that Bolsonaro had “full awareness” and “active participation” in the coup plot, which sought to subvert the constitutional order.
In this sense, regarding the ‘coup drafts’ that were found at the home of former Security Minister Anderson Torres and at the PL headquarters in Brasilia, it states that Bolsonaro received said texts, which included the arrest of De Moraes and the president of the Senate. , Rodrigo Pacheco.
The former president even sent a correction to said drafts. Likewise, he would also have summoned the commanders of the Armed Forces to present said document with the aim of pressuring the military to join the coup.
The Police investigation reached the Supreme Court last Thursday. A total of 37 people are listed in it, among them the aforementioned Bolsonaro, or the former Director of Intelligence Alexandre Ramagem; the former head of Security of the Presidency Augusto Heleno Ribeiro; and the president of the Liberal Party (PL), Valdemar Costa Neto.
All of them are accused of attempted coup d’état, a charge that carries penalties of up to 12 years in prison; membership in a criminal gang, with up to eight years in prison; and violent abolition of the rule of law, with maximums of eight years.
The investigation points to several events that occurred during the electoral campaign and once those October 2022 elections were over, in which Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva emerged the winner and whose victory took days for Bolsonaro to recognize while the protests of his followers intensified.
The case includes an organized plot to spread misinformation, attack institutions and call into question the reliability of the electoral process, as well as incite the military to take up arms. Its financing and the illegal use made of the Brazilian Intelligence agency are also being investigated.
Likewise, it includes the entire contents of Mauro Cid’s phone, the revelations from high-ranking officials of the Armed Forces who opposed the plot and the uncovered plan that included the assassination of Lula himself and Vice President Geraldo Alckmin.
On the other hand, the violent events of January 8, 2023, although related to this alleged plot to remove President Lula from power, are being investigated in another case.