Those involved are accused of drafting a letter that pressured the Army command to support a coup d’état after the election of President Lula in 2022
The Military Court sent an investigation into 4 colonels of the Brazilian Army to the (Supreme Federal Court). The military is suspected of drafting a letter that pressured the Army command to support a coup d’état after the (PT) election in 2022.
As reported by g1, the transfer of the case to the STF occurs after the Military Court chose not to judge the alleged military crimes committed by the officers. The portal states that the colonels sent a letter entitled “Letter to the Commander of the Army from Senior Active Officers of the Brazilian Army”to General Freire Gomes.
Active colonels Anderson Lima de Moura and Alexandre Castilho Bitencourt da Silva are suspected of drafting the document, along with retired colonels Carlos Giovani Delevati Pasini and José Otávio Machado Rezo. The process remains confidential.
PF OPERATION
The PF (Federal Police) targeted suspects of being part of a criminal organization responsible for planning, according to findings, a coup d’état to prevent the elected government from taking office in the 2022 Elections.
On November 21, the agents the former president (PL), the former Minister of Defense, General Braga Netto, the former aide-de-camp, Lieutenant-Colonel Mauro Cid, and 34 other people for involvement in the alleged coup attempt of State.
According to the corporation, the indictment reflects the existence of sufficient elements to indicate the participation of Bolsonaro, Braga Netto and Cid in a plot to prevent the elected president (PT) from taking office that year.
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, (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 Bolsonaro’s government. 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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