According to the former Jair Bolsonaro Orders Assistant, the information was passed on by General Freire Gomes after a meeting on the coup plan in December
Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid confirmed in testimony on November 21, 2024 that the former president (PL) showed the draft of the coup to commanders of the Armed Forces at a meeting held on December 9, 2022.
The decision of the Minister of the Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes to make public videos 1 day after the fall of the testimonials and 2 days after the complaint of the PGR (Attorney General’s Office) against Bolsonaro and 33 people for planning a coup d’état in 2022.
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According to Cid, the former president did not receive support from the army and Air Force commanders, only from the Navy. According to the complaint of the PGR on Tuesday (18.FEV), the lack of support from the Army High Command was why the plan was not executed.
Cid said, however, that he did not attend the meeting, and received information from General Freire Gomes after the end of the meeting.
Denunciation
On November 21, 2024, the former administrative of orders gave new testimonials to the Supreme Court for “Contradictions” Among his speeches given in August 2023 and PF investigations into the plan of giving a coup and kill the bosses of the executive and Minister Alexandre de Moraes.
The new content, even, supported General Walter Braga Netto, who was Minister of Defense and candidate for deputy on the Bolsonaro plate in 2022.
Mauro Cid gave 6 other statements to the Federal Police. As a benefit, it would have the“Judicial forgiveness” your a “Penalty deprivation of liberty” less than 2 years. Read below the full of what Cid said:
- 28.ago.2023 ( – 4 MB);
- 11.mar.2024 ( – 13 MB);
- 9.abr.2024 ( – 3 MB);
- 9.NOV.2024 (- 1 MB);
- 5.DECE.2024 ( – 3 MB);
- 6.Dens.2024 – ( – 1 MB).
Cid gave the 1st testimony in the PF (Federal Police) award -awarded denunciation process in August 2023. This document was obtained by the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo and released by columnist Elio Gaspari on January 25, when he was still kept confidential. Now it has been officially available.
PGR complaint
In addition to Bolsonaro and Cid, Braga Netto is among those reported by PGR. The complaint, however, does not mean that the former president will be arrested, or that he is already considered guilty by the court. What the PGR presented in the STF survey validated the performance and the PF report. In this case, the accused have not yet become defendants and remain as investigated.
The evidence against those involved were obtained by the corporation over almost 2 years, through breaks of telematic, telephone, banking and fiscal secrecy, as well as award -winning collaborations, searches and seizures.
Below are the crimes by which those involved were reported and the foreseen penalty:
- violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law – 4 to 8 years in prison;
- coup d’etat – 4 to 12 years in prison;
- Integrate criminal organization with firearms – 3 to 17 years in prison;
- Qualified damage against Union’s heritage – 6 months to 3 years; and
- DECLARED OF HERITAGE – 1 to 3 years.
Next Steps
The complaint was sent to the STF.
Now the minister should decide whether to accept the complaint (fully or in part) or if the case is archived. It must also submit the decision to a board. You can still ask for changes to consider the piece incomplete or understand that it does not correspond to the law.
This stage involves hearings with accused and new interrogations. The criminal procedural code obliges the judge to conduct his own investigation and call witnesses and corridors.
After the requirements and steps and, proving the evidence found by the PF, those involved have become defendants and will be responsible for a public criminal action – may be convicted or acquitted. In this phase the final allegations are made and the Court gives a decision on the penalties of each of those involved.
The Supreme Court may still send the case back to the first instance – in this case, a possible prison of Bolsonaro would be longer. This possibility can be raised by members of the board, since Bolsonaro no longer has a privileged forum and, therefore, could have the case judged by a Federal Court.
A is that Moraes take the case to be analyzed by the 1st Panel of the Court, composed by ministers Cristiano Zanin, Cármen Lúcia, Luiz Fux, Moraes and Flávio Dino. It is up to the rapporteur, however, to make this decision.
The Code of Criminal Procedure determines a period of up to 15 days for the assessment of the complaint by the instance that will judge it. In the evaluation of experts heard by the Poder360the proximity of the complaint with the holidays of Carnival, Easter and work can cause the deadline to be extended.
An eventual conviction of Bolsonaro and consequent loss of political rights due to the crimes to which it is accused will only be possible after a condemnatory criminal sentence that became res judicata, that is, when there is no possibility of appeal. Until then, however, the former president remains ineligible by decision of the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) of 2023.
Slicing
PGR opted to “Slice” the complaint in 5 parts. Although the PF has presented 1 single report with all accused for the same crimes, the Attorney’s Office has decided to separate criminal actions, which should be analyzed separately.
According to experts consulted by Poder360the slicing strategy allows the division of criminal actions. In this case, the testimonies of the witnesses heard would be registered separately.
Separation, however, may imply difficulties in convicting criminal organization crime as it would create an obstacle to connecting the defendants. The risk, in this case, according to experts, is of incongruities and nullity of the criminal action.
MILITARY
In relation to the military involved, they should be tried by the Common Justice. An eventual transfer of the process to military justice is unlikely, since the crimes for which they were reported are typically civilians.
In addition, the performance of the officers took place while “Public officials”more than during the exercise of military activity. Therefore, the procedural rite must be the same as the other investigated.
The investigation
In November 2024, the PF an operation against suspects of integrating a criminal organization responsible for planning, according to the corporation’s understanding, a coup d’état to prevent the possession of the elected government in the 2022 election.
The agents aimed the so -called “black kids”, a group formed by the special forces military. They investigated an execution plan against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) and his deputy, (PSB). The investigated would also have the arrest and execution of Moraes.
At the time, 5 pre -trial detention and 3 search and seizure warrants were issued in Rio de Janeiro, Goiás, Amazonas and the Federal District. Targets had to comply with a number of measures, such as not talking to other investigated, delivering their passports and suspension of public functions.
These were the targets:
- the Executive Secretary of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of Bolsonaro, the reserve general Mário Fernandes;
- Lieutenant Colonel Hélio Ferreira Lima;
- Major Rafael Martins de Oliveira;
- Major Rodrigo Bezerra de Azevedo; and
- Federal Police Officer Wladimir Matos Soares.
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