The Brazilian Federal Police This Thursday he accused the former president Jair Bolsonaro and dozens of his allies of the crimes of violent abolition of the rule of law, coup attempt y criminal organization to keep him in power after the October 2022 elections.
The report, of more than 800 pagescompiles evidence, bank and telephone records, statements, arrests, searches and other information obtained in almost two years of police investigation. Now, it will be handed over to the judge of the Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moraes, in charge of the judicial process.
In addition to Bolsonaro, his former Minister of Defense has also been named, Walter Braga Net; 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, Valdemar Costa Neto. A total of up to 35 people.
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 the October 2022 elections were over, in which he emerged victorious. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and whose triumph took days for Bolsonaro to recognize while the protests intensified. protests from his followers. Among them, the assault on the Plaza de los Tres Poderes in Brasilia.
It is a misinformation plot to attack the institutions and call into question the reliability of the electoral process, and incite the military to take up arms. The financing of these actions and the operations to carry them out and the illegal use of the Intelligence agency are also being investigated.
In February, the Brazilian security forces They showed up at the former president’s house to take away your passportafter the country’s Supreme Court accused him of a coup d’état.
