The general denied on Tuesday (10) at the Supreme Court (STF) that he has delivered money to Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid in a box of wine to finance an articulation to kill authorities. He said he only learned through the press of the plans green and yellow and “”.
According to the PGR (Attorney General of the Republic), “Cup 2022” was the plan to assassinate STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes, and would be the execution of the “”, which predicted in detail the murder of (PT) and (PSB).
Cid stated, in a statement, that Braga Netto, to Lieutenant Colonel Rafael de Oliveira-Indicated for being one of the executors of the general, who was placed in action on December 15, 2022 to kill or arrest Alexandre de Moraes.
In his testimony on Tuesday (10), provided for a video conferencing for being arrested in Rio de Janeiro, Braga Netto stated that it was common for politicians, through the president of the PL, Valdemar da Costa Neto, or former President Jair Bolsonaro, to pay late campaign bills. So when Cid asked if he could get any resources, the general says he thought it would be the same case.
“There’s a mistake at this point, because Cid tells him that he came after me and asked if the PL could get some money,” he said.
“I tell him, look for Colonel Azevedo [tesoureiro do partido]. He sought Azevedo. I left with Azevedo, because I didn’t know what it was. Azevedo came later to me and said: ‘General, the money I want, is needing, we have no protection to give.’ So I said, ‘Then the subject dies.’ And the subject died. I didn’t have, as I said, contact with entrepreneurs, so I didn’t ask for money and I didn’t give any money to ICD, “he said.
The questions of his lawyer, José Luis Oliveira Lima, focused on pointing Cid contradictions.
The PF states that, on November 12, 2022, a. They were present at the Cid meeting, Major Rafael de Oliveira and Lieutenant Colonel Hélio Ferreira Lima. According to the PF, it was after this meeting that the monitoring of the Passos de Moraes began, with the aim of arresting or killing it.
Braga Netto said he received the military as a courtesy visit and denied any conversation on the subject. “How am I going to discuss such a subject with two people I don’t know? I just received them because Cid said people wanted to greet me,” he said.
Moraes he responded at various times that did not remember messages read by the minister and said they had been taken out of context and that there was no complete sequence for analysis.
The defense of the general has stated that the speed of the process, the volume of the complete material of the tests, the disorganization of archives and other technological problems have difficult to analyze the evidence.
Braga Netto was arrested on December 14, 2024, on the grounds that in order to interfere with the investigations.
The defense of the general and, before the beginning of the interrogations, too. Both requests were denied.
Former Minister of Defense and the Civil House, the general was a candidate for vice president on the Bolsonaro plate in 2022.
Suspects related to the attempt to interfere with the investigations have been accumulated since September 2023, when Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid was approved his award-winning STF collaboration agreement.
Cid himself reported, in a statement, that Braga Netto directly sought his father, General Mauro Lourena Cid, to ask for details of what he had said in the award -winning collaboration. In the testimony, Braga Netto said he was the father of the former order of orders who sought him out, to ask for support from the son.
One of the general’s defense strategies is to question CID’s denunciation, pointing to contradictions, different versions and temporal lapses.
In one of the excerpts of the prior defense, the lawyers say that the general’s complaint in a box of wine.
