Lawyers Celso Vilardi, Paulo Cunha Bueno and Daniel Tesser called it “selective leaks”
The former president’s defense (PL) released a note criticizing the leak of the testimony of the president’s former aide-de-camp, lieutenant colonel Mauro Cid. Lawyers Celso Vilardi, Paulo Cunha Bueno and Daniel Tesser stated that the defense does not have access to the full statement, despite what they called “selective leaks”.
Mauro Cid’s statements for the investigation into the 2022/2023 coup plans are kept confidential by the minister. Last Sunday (26 January 2025), however, it was revealed by the newspaper O Globo one of the statements made by Bolsonaro’s former aide-de-camp. The document, dated August 28, 2023, has 6 pages and mentions more than 20 people.
“’Semi-secret’ investigations, in which defenses are given selective access to information, preventing the full context of the evidence, are incompatible with the Democratic Rule of Law, which our legal system seeks to preserve”said the lawyers in the statement released last Sunday (26 January).
Jair Bolsonaro and 39 other people were indicted in November 2024 by the Federal Police for the crimes of attempted coup d’état, attempted abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law and criminal organization. According to the corporation, a “criminal organization that acted in a coordinated manner, in 2022, in an attempt to keep the then President of the Republic in power” was identified by the agency.
The note signed by Bolsonaro’s defense “expresses its indignation at new ‘selective leaks’, as well as its nonconformity at the fact that, while it is being denied legal access to the entirety of said collaboration, its content, on the other hand, has been and continues to be repeatedly publicized in media outlets. communication”.
Cid’s statement also mentions that (PL), federal deputy and Bolsonaro’s son, and Michelle Bolsonaro, former first lady, were part of a more radical group close to the former president. The senator (PL-SC), also mentioned by Mauro Cid in the statement, said that the statements were “fallacious, absurd and lying”.
“I never heard, discussed or insinuated anything about the alleged coup with the President of the Republic nor with any of those mentioned in the leaked statement. The content of the illegally leaked statement is just a “classification” opinion that criminally includes me as part of a fictitious group, and does not contain any specific factual account of my participation that never existed.”said Seif in a statement.
