Federal Police (PF) agent Wladimir Matos Soares, target of the operation carried out this Tuesday (19) to investigate an alleged plan to assassinate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), Vice President Geraldo Alckmin (PSB) , and Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), stated in testimony that he was “co-opted” to provide information for the plan to attack authorities.
According to sources linked to the investigation, Soares stated that he was convinced to collaborate with the plot by fellow PF agent, Alexandre Ramalho Dias Ferreira.
Soares was arrested this Tuesday morning (19) by the PF itself. The agent is accused of, together with four Army soldiers, devising a plan to kill Lula and Alckmin weeks before the inauguration of the Presidency of the Republic. The other victim of the plan would be Moraes.
According to the PF report, on the security structure of then-president-elect Lula to people close to Jair Bolsonaro (PL)
In an excerpt, the document points out that the police officer, “taking advantage of the duties inherent to his position in the period between the diploma and the inauguration of the elected government, passed on information related to President Lula’s security structure to people close to the then president Jair Bolsonaro , directly adhering to the coup attempt.”
Ramalho, , appears in the Abin Paralela investigations.
It was transferred by the PF to the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) under the management of Alexandre Ramagem. The federal agent was stationed in the office of the agency’s then director general.
Information from the Abin Paralela investigation was shared in the investigation into the coup d’état as determined by Moraes.
In the investigation into the illegal espionage scheme, Ramalho is part, according to the PF, of the “nucleus of subordinates”, formed by “federal police officers assigned to ABIN who served as ‘staff’ for senior management, complying with determinations, monitoring targets and producing reports.”
A CNN He reached out to former president Jair Bolsonaro, but received no response.
