This Saturday morning (14) the retired general, former government minister () and also candidate for vice on the defeated 2022 ticket, were arrested.
He was at his home in Rio de Janeiro and will be detained at the Eastern Military Command. Addresses linked to the general are also the target of searches and seizures.
The PF states that “two search and seizure warrants and a precautionary measure other than arrest against individuals who would be hindering the free production of evidence during the criminal procedural investigation” are also being served.
The legal measures would aim, according to the PF, to “prevent the repetition of illicit actions”.
The operation is related to the investigation into the attempted coup d’état. The reserve general’s defense has not yet commented on Saturday’s arrest.
According to the PF, Braga Netto worked in two groups of the group suspected of the coup plot.
According to the investigations, the Army reserve soldier would have participated in the “Nucleus Responsible for Inciting Military Personnel to Join the Coup d’Etat” and the “Nucleus of High Ranking Officers with Influence and Support to Other Nuclei”.
The description of these groups, the names of the members, including the former aide-de-camp Mauro Cid, and the way in which each one acts are described in a decision by the (Supreme Federal Court), which.
According to Moraes’ decision, based on information from the PF, the group had acted to discredit the electoral process, plan and execute the coup d’état and abolish the democratic rule of law “with the purpose of maintaining and permanence of its group in power.”
The PF indicted Bolsonaro and other people for the coup plot to prevent Lula from taking office. The list includes former ministers Augusto Heleno (GSI), Anderson Torres (Justice) and Paulo Sérgio Nogueira de Oliveira (Defense), in addition to Braga Netto and Cid.
The PF says that in 2022 the then-elected president, (), the vice, (), and the minister, of the (Supreme Federal Court), were discussed at the reserve general’s house in Brasília.
“We still haven’t had full access to the investigations, which makes it impossible for the defense to make any statement,” said lawyer Luis Henrique Prata as soon as the PF’s revelations came to light.
In recent days, Bolsonaro’s defense has started to work with the “coup coup” thesis, according to which they would use it to overthrow the then president and take power — and not to keep him in office.
The strategy to free Bolsonaro from the coup plot involves the reserve generals as the main beneficiaries of a possible institutional rupture.
Allies of the two soldiers told the Sheetsubject to reservation, that the disclosure of this line of defense caused a breach of trust. The movement is seen as opportunism by the former president in an attempt to get rid of accusations that he knew about the coup plans.
The basis for this thesis is a document prepared by , one of the main suspects of masterminding the coup plot revealed by the PF. This text provided for the creation of an Institutional Crisis Management Office, commanded by military personnel, shortly after the coup d’état.
