The Director General of (Brazilian Intelligence Agency), Luiz Fernando Corrêa ,. Investigators are determined to indicate it in.
The suspicion against the head of the Intelligence Agency (PT) is that he tried to disrupt police investigations. The decision also occurs amid the revelation that the agency, under Bolsonaro and Lula ,.
The testimony of the former number 2 of the agency Alessandro Moretti, fired by Lula in January last year, is also planned. The PF has also decided to indicate it for the same suspicions.
Based on the evidence harvested so far, investigators have decided that there are enough elements, including dozens of witnesses, to indict Corrêa and the scenario can only change if the two have irrefutable defenses in Thursday’s testimonials, which is so far considered unlikely.
The completion of the PF should be included in the investigation report, with a presentation scheduled for next week. Then, the case will be analyzed by the (Attorney General’s Office), who is to decide whether to report the court, asks for more police findings or archives the case.
Politically, the possible indictment raises the tension between the agency and the intelligence agency, which has waged a backstage dispute since the transition from the government in 2022. The Chief of Abin is Lula’s trust assistant, having held the position of PF Director General in the second term of the petista (2007-2010).
Sought, Abin, PF and Moretti did not speak.
Throughout the investigation, the PF said it had gathered testimonials and documentary evidence and techniques that raise the suspicion that Corrêa and Moretti acted to make it difficult to determine the case. Investigators also indicate that Abin acted out of law in its intelligence activities.
The agency denies, claiming to have collaborated in the investigation and answered all requests from the investigators. Behind the scenes, he states that the PF has adopted a distorted line in an attempt to politically wear out the current direction of the organ and force an exchange in charge.
The investigation had as its starting point the revelation that ABIN used the Firstmile espionage software during Bolsonaro management to illegally monitor government disaffected. The inquiry to investigate the case was initiated in March 2023, while during Lula’s term.
The initial focus of the investigation was the federal deputy (-RJ), who commanded Abin for most of the Bolsonaro government and is appointed as the main character of the agency’s political use.
There was search and seizure at branch addresses. The PF even asked the Supreme Court (STF) to suspend its parliamentary mandate, but the measure was not agreed by the PGR and was denied by Minister Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the case.
Councilman Carlos Bolsonaro (PL), son of the former president, who would head the so-called “Hate Office” ,.
As the investigation advanced, the reports began to mention the suspicion of interference from the current management of Abin in the course of the case.
One of the points presented was a meeting in March 2023 in which Moretti would have stated that the investigation had a “political background and would pass”. This statement was played by the PF as an attempt to minimize the severity of the facts and influence the investigated.
The testimony that quotes the sentence, however, but to the “Directorate-General”. At the time, the PF stated that there was a possible “collusion of part of the investigated with the current high management of ABIN”.
In addition, the police are investigating whether information or incorrect data was omission by the agency, which would have difficult to work, as well as formatting computers outside regular standards.
In the case relative to Paraguay, there was the planned revelation in Bolsonaro management and which was also executed during the Lula administration, according to and confirmed by Sheet.
The PF points out that, also in this case, the management of Abin has carried out intelligence operations with the use of illegal tools, outside the Brazilian legislation. Researchers evaluate maintaining open facts related to Paraguay in a new inquiry.
Intelis, an association that represents the agency’s servers, issued a note on Wednesday night (16) with harsh criticism of the PF.
Quoting the case of the alleged operation against Paraguayan authorities, the Association said it has called the Federal Prosecutor to determine the leakage of confidential information and what they see as “improper expansion of the investigative scope for the PF’s out of legal competence”.
“The expansion of the scope of the inquiry seems to serve political interests and delegitimization of state intelligence. It is inadmissible and harmful to the purposes of a great nation such as Brazil that a campaign of disbelief of its intelligence service is led, not by adverse foreign actors, but by groups of the national public administration itself.”
