The indictment of () on suspicion of joining other investigations and cases that target the former president.
Throughout this year, he was also indicted in: for jewelry received from Saudi Arabia and in the case of falsifying Covid-19 vaccine certificates.
To date, Bolsonaro is not a defendant in these cases. . Afterwards, the Court decides whether or not to accept the complaint, which would make the former president a defendant.
Since the end of his government, Bolsonaro has only been condemned in the electoral field, for eight years by the Superior Electoral Court.
See investigation fronts and suspicions against Bolsonaro.
Coup
Bolsonaro was indicted by the Federal Police, along with 36 other people, under the understanding that he participated in a plot to prevent Lula (PT) from taking office in 2023.
Among the suspects, according to the PF, are also reserve general Braga Netto, former Minister of Defense and vice-president on the defeated ticket in 2022, the national president of the PL, Valdemar Costa Neto, and the former general director of Abin (Brazilian Intelligence Agency) Alexandre Ramagem.
The plans discussed at Palácio da Alvorada at the end of 2022 aimed at issuing a decree that would annul the result of the presidential elections, under the false allegation of fraud in electronic voting machines.
TSE ineligibility
Bolsonaro was declared ineligible by the TSE for abuse of power in two different actions.
One of them is related to the one in which the then president spread lies about the electoral system. The second was for the campaign. There are also other actions related to the 2022 election being processed against him.
With an eight-year ineligibility penalty, he will not be able to run in the 2026 and 2028 elections. Despite this, Bolsonaro has been demonstrating as a candidate for the next general elections.
One . This is because even if Congress approves some type of amnesty, the project would probably have its constitutionality challenged in the STF.
Jewelry
In July, the Federal Police were presented by the Brazilian government.
In August, and to statements collected within the scope of the agreement signed with the USA before deciding whether or not to file a complaint.
The PF cited the suspicion of the crimes of gang formation (with expected imprisonment of 1 to 3 years), money laundering (3 to 10 years) and embezzlement/appropriation of public property (2 to 12 years).
Two points of the investigation were considered crucial by the PF as Bolsonaro’s fingerprints in the case. The first is the use of Brazilian Air Force aircraft to take the jewelry and gifts to the United States. The second, messages indicating the return of money from sales, in cash, to the former president’s pocket.
Vaccination card
In March, the former president had already been . In addition to him, former aide-de-camp Mauro Cid, federal deputy Gutemberg Reis (MDB-RJ) and 14 other people were also targets of the PF report.
The investigation highlighted the suspicion of the crimes of entering false data into an information system (sentence of imprisonment of 2 to 12 years and fine) and criminal association (1 to 3 years), and indicated a link with the coup plot. This is because, according to the PF, the fraud may have been carried out as part of an attempt to carry out a coup d’état in the country and prevent Lula (PT) from taking office.
In his testimony, the former president admitted that he was not vaccinated, but denied having given the order for the falsification. Cid said in testimony that the fraud involving Bolsonaro and his daughter, Laura’s vaccination card, was carried out at the request of the president himself at the time and that the certificates were printed and delivered “by hand” to the then president.
Pandemic
Another front of investigation in the criminal field that could still impact Bolsonaro concerns his.
Last year, the minister ordered the reopening of an investigation into suspected irregularities and omissions committed by the former president and members of his administration amid the pandemic.
After Augusto Aras’ management at the PGR did not carry out indictment requests made by Covid’s CPI, there was a movement by senators so that the current PGR, Paulo Gonet, reevaluated the archiving requests made under his predecessor.
