The conduct of the Federal Supreme Court of (Supreme Court) to tell the whistleblower that he has provoked discussions about the magistrate’s attitude and opened a margin for questions by the former president’s defense and allies.
On November 21, 2024, Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid appeared to the STF’s courtroom pressured by a request from the (Attorney General’s Office) favorable to his arrest for breach of the terms of the award-winning collaboration agreement that had was signed in 2023.
Moraes made a long preamble before passing the word to the employee, warning of the possibility of arrest, revocation of collaboration and continuing investigations against his relatives if he did not tell the truth.
Cid eventually changed his version in the capitals of the case and, in the end, saw his report maintained and the arrest request, withdrawn.
Excerpts from a new version of the whistleblower, which addresses a meeting at the General’s house, were used in the complaint of the Attorney General’s Office presented last Tuesday (18).
Marco Aurélio de Carvalho, coordinator of, says that the conduct of Moraes should be understood as an alert to the employee, which according to him is common in award -winning collaboration hearings.
“These alerts are protocol, they happen in all audiences. Although I am critical of some methods and ways of leading Alexander [de Moraes]In this case there are people who are being deeply unfair in sliding reality to reach a certain conclusion. They are building a fake news, “said Carvalho.
Throughout the use of collaboration agreements as a basis for accusations, it was recurrent, the criticism of lawyers on the pressure made by authorities to the whistleblowers and defendants arrested was common.
The whistleblower, for example, had criminal actions nullified last year after the Supreme Dias Toffoli minister understood that there was illegalities in conducting the case, such as “use of elongated arrests, as well as threats to relatives.”
For the professor of criminal law at FGV-SP and a member of the OAB-SP prerogatives Council Rogério Taffarello, at the hearing with Cid Moraes committed a verbal excess that, however, should not be considered an illegal embarrassment.
“As for the warnings made by the minister during the hearing, he was, to his words, warning the employee of the legal consequences of eventual unfaithful collaboration to the duties of transparency and to tell the whole truth. It is desirable that judges are contained in this type Of warning, but unfortunately our judicial culture has admitted this hardness in the treatment of investigated, “said Taffarello.
“It is not, in my view, the ideal, the best way to conduct an audience, but it is not an unusual scene in the Brazilian criminal judiciary, in all instances,” he added.
Sought by SheetCelso Vilardi, Bolsonaro’s lawyer, chose not to deal with Moraes’s speech, but. According to the criminalist, the November hearing with Mauro Cid could not have existed, since at the time it had already requested the cancellation of the award -winning collaboration.
In an interview with GloboNews, on Wednesday (20), Vilardi indicated to understand that the conduct of Moraes deserves legal questioning.
“The judge of the cause can tell the employee that if he does not tell the truth he will be arrested and loses immunity to his daughter, wife and father?” Asked the crime at the time.
Bolsonarist parliamentarians frame Moraes’s speech as torture and coercion.
“Mauro Cid ‘changed a version’ right when Alexandre de Moraes threatened him from prison. This is torture practice,” said the Senator (PL-RJ), the former president’s son.
“They arrested, they left him without seeing his daughters and his wife, threatened to arrest family members. Cid still had his career.
The same term was used by the opposition leader in the House, Sostenes Cavalcante (PL-RJ). “It’s not, it’s award -winning coercion. Threatening to arrest the guy, the guy’s wife, the guy’s bigger daughter, and the guy’s father, what’s it? Torture,” he said.
Mauro Cid was arrested twice. In 2023, he was detained for four months, leaving jail when he signed the collaboration agreement.
In March 2024, after Veja magazine revealed audios in which he criticized Moraes and put the smoothness of the agreement.
In November, Moraes even determined that Lieutenant Colonel’s telephone was tapped after the Federal Police identified “omissions and contradictions” in the award-winning denunciation of the former Bolsonaro orders.
