General Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, former Minister of Defense of (), denied the (Supreme Court) that he pressured the commanders to join a coup at the end of 2022.
Paulo Sérgio is one of the reported in the case by the PGR (Attorney General of the Republic) who sent the defense to the court on Thursday (6)-the period of 15 days begins to be counted from the notification.
According to the defense of the general, the prosecution of the PGR is “the purest”, and his innocence would be proven by the evidence obtained in the investigation of the.
“The commanders do not claim that they were pressured by the Defense Minister, on the contrary, they say he did not question the position,” the lawyers say. “It should be remembered that General Paulo Sérgio was aligned with General Freire Gomes and was totally opposed to the idea of a blow, fearing, including radicals advised and led the president to sign a ‘Doidera’.”
Paulo Sérgio’s defense also says that PGR falls into contradiction by saying that the former minister was part of a criminal organization with the former president.
According to the defense, it was the former minister himself who resisted Bolsonaro’s pressures to change the report on the operation of the electronic ballot boxes in the 2022 elections.
“How to say that General Paulo Sérgio was part of a criminal organization, if, according to the complaint, it would be the one who precisely contradicted and prevented the intentions and interests of the organization,” he says.
Former Army Commander (General Freire Gomes) and Aeronautics (Baptista Júnior) told the Federal Police, in separate statements, that former Minister Paulo Sérgio Nogueira called them to a meeting on December 14, 2022 to present a scammer draft.
An earlier version of the text had already been presented to the military chiefs by Bolsonaro the week before. Baptista Júnior and Freire Gomes reported that, outraged, they left the meeting before the debate on the topic.
Alexandre Ramagem
In his allegations about the PGR complaint, the federal deputy (-RJ) told the Supreme Court that the Bolsonaro government radicalization, which included a coup plot, occurred after leaving the direction of (Brazilian Intelligence Agency).
According to the defense of the parliamentarian, at that moment Ramagem had attention aimed at the electoral dispute, in which he was elected to a chair of the House of Representatives. The statement was made in defense sent on Thursday (6) to the minister, rapporteur of the complaint about the coup plot in the court.
“It lacks reasonableness the statement that a person who had just been elected federal deputy, after so much effort and expense of material and personal resources in a fierce electoral dispute, was able to pay attention against the ‘constitutional powers’, aiming to abolish the Democratic Rule of Law. Alexandre Ramagem Rodrigues had just been elected a member of one of the powers of the Republic,” he says.
Ramage is accused of having headed espionage scheme during Bolsonaro management in the so -called “parallel abin”.
The Supreme Court receives some of the first demonstrations of the reports of the case. Sent by (Attorney General’s Office) on February 18 to keep the former president in power in 2022.
That year’s election campaign officially began on August 16. The first round was on October 2, 2022. Ramagem left office at Abin on March 30 of that year.
“Months of sacrifice and planning that resulted in electoral success would simply have been thrown into the ‘trash can’ because the accused would be imbued with paying attention against the Democratic Rule of Law, against the functioning of a power of the republic for which he had just been chosen,” says the deputy’s defense.
The lawyers state that the prosecution made by the PGR highlights a recrudation of the scenario from July 5, 2022, both public pronouncements and concrete acts that would have been practiced by those involved.
“It turns out that the accused Alexandre Ramagem Rodrigues did not take part of any of these facts, since, from March 2022, he moved away from the federal government with a very clear purpose, to take care of the planning of his election campaign, pre-campaign and dispute itself,” says the petition sent to Moraes.
For the defense, members of the hard core of the alleged criminal organization had a common feature: all, according to the prosecution, were part of the federal government and the Armed Forces. Ramage, before entering politics, was delegated from.
