Determination comes 1 day after PGR claims that there is no evidence proving that the former president asked for the insertion of false data regarding covid-19 vaccines
Supreme Court Minister Alexandre de Moraes determined the filing of the investigation against the former president (PL) About fraud on your vaccination card. THE Determination comes 1 day after the PGR (Attorney General’s Office) request the filing on Thursday (27.mar). This is a (PDF – 156 kb).
According to the Attorney General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet, There is no evidence To prove that Bolsonaro requested the insertion of false data regarding covid-19 vaccines in the Ministry of Health system.
“Given the absence of elements that justify the accountability of Jair Messias Bolsonaro and Gutemberg Reis de Oliveira for the crimes of false data insertion in information system, promoting the archiving of the inquiry regarding these two investigated”said Gonet. Read to of the manifestation (PDF – 378 KB).
The PF (Federal Police) investigation pointed out a false vaccination data insertion scheme in health systems that would be commanded by the then Bolsonaro order assistant, Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid. In testimony to the corporation, Cid that would have entered the information at the behest of the former president.
At the demonstration, Gonet said Cid’s denunciation was not corroborated by other evidence and, for this reason, cannot submit a complaint against Bolsonaro. The Attorney General stated that the situation differs from the criminal prosecution for attempted coup d’état, received by the STF on Wednesday (26.mar), “In which convincing and autonomous evidence were produced by the PF, in confirmation of the employees’ reports”.
As to the deputy (MDB-RJ), who was also cited by Cid as one of the benefited by the fraud, Gonet concludes that there are considerable elements of conviction that he is vaccinated. He cited publications from the congressman on social networks encouraging immunization, which would constitute absence of advantages.
Understand
In March 2024, the PF came to Bolsonaro for the crimes of criminal association and the insertion of false data in the investigation system that investigates fraud on covid vaccination certificates. In addition to the former president, former orders Mauro Cid was also indicted.
Operation Venire checked fake records on SUS (Unified Health System) platforms made from November 2021 to December 2022. People close to the former president, as his daughter, Laura Bolsonaro, 12, would also have received COVID vaccination certificates without taking the vaccine.
The action was based on the breach of confidentiality of ICD cell phones, held the previous year, in an inquiry into electronic ballot boxes.
According to the PF, on December 21, 2022, the secretary of government of the City Hall of Duque de Caxias (RJ), João Carlos de Souza Brecha, inserted in the SUS system that the former president had taken vaccines against Covid. One day later, a registered user with the email “”, used by ICD at the time, accessed the Conectesus app and issued vaccination certificates.
On December 27, another voucher was issued and then the data were excluded from the health system. On the 30th, the date on which a new voucher was issued. Fifteen days before the former president’s return to Brazil on March 30, .
in the operation. Lieutenant Colonel was appointed by PF as responsible for the scheme.
Bolsonaro was also targeted. The agents searched and seized in Brasilia. He was at the residence at the time of the search and had the .
“Criminal action” axes
Falsification of vaccination data integrates one of the 5 axes of criminal action investigated by the Federal Police involving Bolsonaro, allies and former advisors in the inquiry 4874-DF.
