Last of the eight defendants of the crucial nucleus of the coup plot to testify, the general, former Minister of Defense and the Civil House, is heard by a video conferencing for the first class of (Supreme Federal Court).
In addition to being minister, Braga Netto was the vice in the plate of () in the 2022 presidential election. He is the only one of the accused of the first core that is pre -imprisoned for involvement in the attempted coup.
Profile
Walter Braga Netto, 68, is a general of the Brazilian Army Reserve. It is forming by Aman (Military Academy of Negulhas). In the government of the former president (), he was a federal intervener in public security of the state of Rio de Janeiro.
After the intervention, he became head of the Army Staff, according to the most important post in the Force Hierarchy. He was Minister of the Bolsonaro government between February 2020 and March 2021, when he took over the Ministry of.
The change of paste was after the resignation of General Fernando Azevedo by Bolsonaro, who was dissatisfied with the removal between the barracks and the government. The departure of Azevedo culminated in the joint waiver of the three commanders for the first time in history.
Prison
The General has been pre-tried preventively since December 14, 2024 by determination of the minister after request of the and endorsement of the (Attorney General’s Office). According to the Attorney’s Office, Braga Netto tried to interfere with the investigations.
Lieutenant Colonel, who signed an award-winning collaboration agreement, said in a statement that the former defense minister sought his father, General Mauro Lourena Cid, to ask for details of what he had said in his denunciation.
Braga Netto is the first four -star general arrested in the history of the Brazilian Army, according to the institution itself.
Indictment
Like the other defendants of the crucial core, the general is accused crimes of armed criminal organization, violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, coup, damage qualified by violence and serious threat and deterioration of overturned heritage.
In the complaint, PGR points Braga Netto as leader, alongside Bolsonaro, of the criminal organization. The PF states that a meeting took place at home in which the plan to kill (), Vice-President () and Moraes had been discussed.
In his interrogation, Cid reaffirmed that he received from Braga Netto a box of wine full of cash to deliver to Lieutenant Colonel Rafael de Oliveira, accused of leading the group that planned to kill Moraes.
Defense
A, commanded by lawyer José Luis Oliveira Lima, tries to question the validity of Cid’s collaboration and states that the complaint does not present evidence that corroborates the denunciation.
PGR’s statements are classified as “mere assumptions”. In addition, the defense says the whistleblower would have been coerced, repeatedly changing two statements, “extracted to Forceps.”
In May this year, Moraes denied the end of Braga Netto for the second time. At the time, the general’s lawyer stated that he had become a “. The STF minister also denied the not to transmit the interrogation of the general.
