The general’s defense told the (Supreme Court) on Friday (7) that Lieutenant Colonel changed versions about the former minister’s participation in the 2022 coup plot after being coerced in his award-winning report.
The team led by lawyer José Luis Oliveira Lima stated that the complaint of the PGR (Attorney General of the Republic) is poorly supported and is based on skewed stretches of Cid’s collaboration.
For the defense, Mauro Cid’s collaboration agreement “is certainly one of the most problematic and illegal in history [do] STF “. One of the reasons, according to the lawyers, would be the speed with which the denunciation was negotiated and approved without the consent of the Augusto Aras PGR.
The statements were made in the prior defense presented by Braga Netto. The general’s lawyers followed the same strategy adopted by other accused and did not deepen the merits of the accusations against the military, highlighting procedural issues, such as the lack of access to evidence and controversies of Mauro Cid’s denunciation.
In one excerpt from the document, Braga Netto’s defense says that the PGR complaint does not present evidence that corroborates Mauro Cid’s statement about the supposed transfer of money from the General, in a box of wine, for military personnel who monitored Minister Alexandre de Moraes.
“In addition to this statement, it was extracted from the employee’s forceps after coercion, many changes in versions, and through a completely addicted and dismissing evidence of the report, the denunciation does not narrate the circumstances of such funding,” he says.
The military lawyers say it is impossible to refute that Braga Netto sent money if the complaint “does not even understand when, how and where the delivery occurred.” “It is evident that the absence of description and probative elements is such that it seriously compromises the defense of the applicant,” he adds.
The general’s defense also states that the Attorney General’s Office makes “mere assumptions” by concluding that Braga Netto met with special forces military personnel at his home on November 12, 2022, to prepare the murder plan of Minister Alexandre de Moraes.
“Unlike what he wants to believe the accusation, he does not support the collaborator’s word the allegation of the accusation that the ‘Cup 2022’ was an execution plan of the ‘yellow green dagger’, much less than Gen. Braga Netto actually acted in the scope of coup plans that intended to monitor and execute Min. Alexandre de Moraes.”
Former Defense Minister and vice in the plate of () in the 2022 elections, Braga Netto was after the former president losing the election to Lula (PT).
He was denounced for the crimes of attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law and coup d’état, damage qualified by violence and serious threat against the union’s assets, deterioration of overturned assets and participation in a criminal organization.
The maximum penalties added to 43 years in prison, not to mention the aggravating. In addition to Braga Netto and Bolsonaro, another 32 people were reported by the coup conspiracies.
The general is one of the few reporteds who is arrested preventively, by decision of the STF minister. In a staff room at the 1st Army Division in Rio de Janeiro.
The Military Unit, subordinate to the East Military Command, was already under the command of Braga Netto from 2016 to 2019 – a period covering federal intervention in Rio during the Michel Temer government (MDB).
The arrest was decreed after request by the Federal Police. According to investigators, Braga Netto tried to get confidential details of Mauro Cid’s award-winning denunciation by looking for Lieutenant Colonel’s father, General Mauro Lourena Cid, in September 2023.
In the representation against Braga Netto, the PF also says that the general “obtained and delivered the necessary resources” for the execution of the Lula killing plan, Geraldo Alckmin (PSB) and Moraes.
The statement is based on the testimony provided by Cid to Moraes. Lieutenant Colonel said that-denounced as one of the executors of the frustrated plan of Moraes murder.
