Senator sent a request to the Minister of Justice on Tuesday (Nov 19) with a series of questions about the president’s alleged “secret meetings”
The Minister of Justice, Ricardo Lewandowski, was out of the country on November 14th, the date on which the senator (Republicans – DF) requested information about a possible meeting between him and the president (PT). The congresswoman questioned whether on that date, the minister and the president had met at Palácio da Alvorada to talk about investigations against the former president (PL).
However, on the date in question, Lewandowski was in Uruguay, at a meeting on combating organized crime with Mercosur countries. He met with Uruguay’s Interior Minister, Nicolás Martinelli.
DAMARES QUESTIONS LEWANDOWSKI
As published by Poder360 On the afternoon of this Friday, Senator Damares Alves (Republicanos-DF) sent on the 3rdª fair (19.nov.2024) to the Minister of Justice, Ricardo Lewandowski, with a series of questions about alleged “secret meetings” by the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) with STF ministers Alexandre de Moraes and Gilmar Mendes, the Attorney General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet, and the Director General of the PF (Federal Police), Andrei Rodrigues. Here is the (PDF – 352 kB) of the application.
In the document, the congresswoman questions whether the matter discussed in the meetings, held on November 14 and 16, involved investigations against the former president (PL), which resulted in its which is 5ª fair (21.nov). The meetings, which would have been held before the episode of in Praça dos Três Poderes, were revealed by the Folha de S.Paulo.
THE PF OPERATION
The PF (Federal Police), targeting suspects of being part of a criminal organization responsible for planning, according to findings, a coup d’état to prevent the government elected in the 2022 Elections from taking office.
Agents target so-called “black kids”, a group formed by Special Forces soldiers, and investigate an execution plan by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and his vice, Geraldo Alckmin (PSB).
Still according to the corporation, the group also . The crimes investigated, according to the PF, constitute, in theory, the violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, a coup d’état and a criminal organization.
Three search and seizure orders were issued in Rio de Janeiro, Goiás, Amazonas and the Federal District. 15 measures were determined, such as the prohibition of contact between those investigated, the delivery of passports within 24 hours and the suspension of the exercise of public functions.
One of the targets of Operation Countercoup, as it is being called, is retired general Mário Fernandes. He was executive secretary of the General Secretariat of the Presidency in the government of (PL). He was also an advisor in the office of the deputy and former Minister of Health (PL-RJ).
Also targeted by the warrants were lieutenant colonels Hélio Ferreira Lima, Rafael Martins de Oliveira and Rodrigo Bezerra de Azevedo, and federal police officer Wladmir Matos Soares. All were subject to preventive detention and a ban on maintaining contact with other people being investigated, as well as a ban on leaving the country, with the consequent surrender of their respective passports.
In , the PF said that a criminal organization “a high level of technical-military knowledge was used to plan, coordinate and execute illicit actions in the months of November and December 2022”.
The plan was being called “Green and Yellow Dagger” and would run on December 15, 2022.
“The planning prepared by those investigated detailed the human and military resources necessary to trigger the actions, using advanced military operational techniques, in addition to the subsequent establishment of an ‘Institutional Crisis Management Office’, to be integrated by the investigated themselves for the management of institutional conflicts arising as a result of actions”said the PF.
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