This Friday (22), the Public Ministry (MP) asked the Federal Audit Court (TCU) to block R$56 million from former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and the other 36 indicted by the Federal Police (PF ) for an alleged attempted coup d’état.
In the request, the Public Ministry alleges that the alleged plot to implement a coup d’état appears to have a direct connection with the acts of January 8th.
The material damage caused by the break in Praça dos Três Poderes was estimated at R$56 million.
“The indictments promoted by the Federal Police and resulting from investigations under the jurisdiction of the Federal Supreme Court point to the direct connection between the coup negotiations that took place in the 2022 election year and the depredations that occurred at the headquarters of the three Powers on January 8, 2023 ″, says an excerpt from the order.
The document sent to the TCU is signed by Deputy Attorney General Lucas Furtado.
Suspension of salaries
The deputy prosecutor also requests the suspension of the salaries of the 25 indicted Armed Forces officers.
The list includes former president Jair Bolsonaro himself, former ministers Walter Braga Netto and Augusto Heleno, as well as former Navy commander Almir Garnier Santos.
“These soldiers, who are paid handsomely from the public coffers and who have the functional duty of defending the Homeland, the guarantee of constitutional powers, law and order (art. 142 of the CF), organized themselves, according to the final report presented by the Federal Police and widely commented on throughout the media, together with other indictees, to form a criminal organization with the purpose of, precisely, attacking all the democratic and patriotic values that they would have, by constitutional mission, to defend”, Furtado said in the order.
“They intend to carry out a coup d’état and promote the violent abolition of the Democratic State of Law, to establish a dictatorship commanded by Jair Bolsonaro, and which still had as a means of achieving this objective the assassination of the legitimately elected President of the Republic, as well as the Vice-President and the then President of the Superior Electoral Court”, says another excerpt from the document.
PF report
This Thursday (21) the Federal Police indicted former president Jair Bolsonaro and 36 other people – including military personnel, former ministers and allies – in the investigation investigating an alleged attempted coup d’état in the country.
The possibility of closing this stage of the investigation had been circulating behind the scenes since early on, and was confirmed this afternoon after sending the report, which is under secrecy, to Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF).
According to the People’s Gazettefor the PF, Bolsonaro knew about the alleged planning of a coup d’état and the actions that were being articulated to make it happen.
According to the PF, among those indicted are military personnel who held ministries in the former president’s government:
- Augusto Heleno: general, former minister of the Institutional Security Office (GSI);
- Walter Braga Netto: general, former Minister of Defense, vice-president on Bolsonaro’s ticket in the 2022 re-election campaign and identified as a key player in the alleged coup attempt;
- Paulo Sérgio Nogueira: general also former Minister of Defense;
- Admiral Garnier Santos: admiral, former commander of the Navy.
In addition to them, the PL president, Valdemar Costa Neto, is also on the list; and federal deputy Alexandre Ramagem (PL-RJ), who commanded the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) during the Bolsonaro government (see below for the full list of those indicted by the PF).
Ramagem is also being investigated in the case of the “parallel Abin”, which allegedly spied on authorities such as politicians, STF ministers and journalists.
