After the interrogation phase, the defendants of the “crucial core” defendants of the criminal action for attempted coup d’état filed new due diligence to Minister Alexandre de Moraes of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), rapporteur of proceedings. The deadline for the formulation of orders ended on Monday, 16.
Both the prosecution and defenses can request new investigations, expertise and sore. The claims are addressed to the rapporteur, who can welcome or reject them. The Attorney General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet, dismissed the realization of new demarches.
The defense of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) wants the annulment of the collaboration agreement with the court of Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid. Based on messages obtained by the magazine Lookthe former president’s defense maintains that Cid lied to investigators and violated the confidentiality of the denunciation, breaking the terms of the agreement.
If the request for annulment is not immediately answered, the former president’s defense asks the Instagram administrator to be set up by the STF to provide information about the @gabrielar702 profile. According to the report of the magazine LookCid used this account to violate the confidentiality of the investigation. Bolsonaro lawyers want more deadline for formulating other requests for steps.
The defense of former Minister Walter Braga Netto wants a caressing with Mauro Cid to clarify contradictions between the testimonies of both. There are contradictory versions of a meeting that took place in November 2022 at the home of the reserve general. According to the former ordinant of orders, the “green and yellow dagger” plan, which provided for the execution of authorities such as Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT), Geraldo Alckmin (PSB) and Moraes, was debated during the meeting. The general denies knowledge about the criminal sketch.
The versions of Braga Netto and Cid are also mismatched about an episode involving an amount of money delivered by the General to Lieutenant Colonel in a box of wine, according to the former orders of orders.
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The representatives of Braga Netto want more deadline for the analysis of the tests and the expansion of the deadline for the submission of due diligence requests.
Cid’s defense calls for more deadlines to make due diligence requests. According to the lawyers of the whistleblower, the testimony of witness Cinthia Queiroz dos Santos, Undersecretary of Integrated Operations of the Federal District in January 2023, indicates that, according to the intelligence of the DF, it was not expected that the demonstration on January 8, 2023 would descend to the Esplanade. For Cid’s defense, this indication contrasts with the accusation that the violent protest was calculated by the defendants.
Former Minister Anderson Torres’ defense also requested trading. Torres defenders want to clarify contradictions between the versions of the former minister and that of witness Marco Antonio Freire Gomes, former army commander. The general states that Torres participated in meetings in which exception measures were discussed, while the former minister denies the allegation.
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Torres defenders also requested an expertise in the draft seized with the former minister. According to the lawyers, the expertise could demonstrate that the material found with Torres is not related to the other sketches with exception measures that give rise to the accusation.
The defense of Almir Garnier, former Navy Commander, asked the STF to officiate the force to clarify the “Formosa Operation”, August 2021, at the time, armored paraded on the Ministries Esplanade concomitantly to the voting, in Congress, of the Proposed Constitutional Amendment (PEC) that would institute the printed vote.
The movement was the target of Moraes’s questions to Garnier during the admiral’s interrogation. The military claimed that there was a “coincidence” between the parade the agenda of the congressmen.
