which targeted an alleged criminal organization that planned a coup d’état in Brazil to prevent the president from taking office Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT)the minister Gilmar Mendesfrom the Federal Supreme Court (STF), classified the revelations that came to light as “extremely serious”.
According to PF investigations, the criminal group had the objective of preventing Lula’s inauguration and had even articulated a plan to assassinate the PT member, the vice-president. Geraldo Alckmin (PSB) and the minister Alexandre de Moraesfrom the Supreme Court.
Four Special Forces soldiers were arrested in the operation launched by the PF: Lieutenant Colonel Helio Ferreria Lima, Major Rodrigo Bezerra Azevedo, Major Rafael Martins de Oliveira and Brigadier General Mario Fernandes, former executive secretary of the Secretariat. -General of the Presidency of the Republic in the Bolsonaro government. PF agent Wladimir Matos Soares was also arrested.
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“It is extremely serious because it involves members of the Armed Forces. Everything indicates the participation of high-ranking military personnel”, said Gilmar Mendes, in an interview with the program Studio i, and GloboNewson the afternoon of this Tuesday (19).
Asked about discussions in the National Congress surrounding an amnesty project for those convicted of the attacks on Praça dos Três Poderes, in Brasília (DF), on January 8, 2023, the STF minister said he did not believe that the proposal would move forward.
“I think it is unthinkable to talk about amnesty in this context. It would be irresponsible. I have several interlocutors in the political world and it doesn’t seem to me that it makes sense”, stated the magistrate.
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Operation Countercoup
The investigations involving Operation Contragolpe are related to a broader investigation by the PF into the alleged activities of a criminal organization along 5 axes:
1) Virtual attacks on opponents;
2) Attacks on institutions (such as the Federal Supreme Court and the Superior Electoral Court), the electronic voting system and the health of the electoral process;
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3) Attempted Coup d’état and violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law;
4) Attacks on vaccines against Covid-19 and health measures in the pandemic and;
5) Use of the State structure to obtain advantages, with the use of fund supplies (corporate cards) to pay personal expenses, insertion of false vaccination data against Covid-19 in the Ministry of Health systems, and diversion of goods from high asset value handed over by foreign authorities and subsequent concealment.
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The operation is related to axis 3: “Attempted Coup d’état and violent Abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law”.
According to investigators, illicit operational actions were carried out by military personnel trained in the Army’s Special Forces (FE) (the so-called “black kids”). Initially, the idea was to monitor the activities of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF, for later “execution of his illegal arrest and possible murder”.
Reports indicate that such monitoring would have started shortly after the meeting, held on November 12, 2022, at the residence of Walter Braga Netto, former Minister of Defense and the Civil House in the Bolsonaro administration.
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Also in the plans were the murders of Lula and Alckmin, newly elected at the time, in an attempt to prevent the new government from taking office.
According to the PF, the moves to consummate a Coup d’Etat peaked between November and December 2022 and were named “2022 World Cup” by those involved.
The evidence was identified based on the analysis of data from the cell phone seized from Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, Bolsonaro’s former aide-de-camp, and exchanges of messages with Marcelo Câmara, Bolsonaro’s former advisor, who joined the investigation into alleged embezzlement of jewelry received by the politician during his term in office.
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