The Federal Police heard on Tuesday one of the lawyers of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), Paulo Costa Bueno, and former Presidency Secretary of Social Communication Fabio Wajngarten in the investigation on messages attributed to Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid. The military is a whistleblower in the process related to the coup plot that aimed to keep Bolsonaro in power after the defeat in the elections.
Lawyer Eduardo Kuntz, who defends Colonel Marcelo Câmara, former Bolsonaro advisor, will also give testimony. The hearings will be held at the PF Superintendence in São Paulo simultaneously.
The testimonials will be made by determination of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Supreme Federal Court (STF).
On the 17th, Kuntz informed the Supreme Court that he talked to Cid for an Instagram account about his award -winning report, which would violate the confidentiality of the agreement. Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid denied, in a statement to the PF on Tuesday, that he used an Instagram profile to talk about his award-winning denunciation.
Before Kuntz handed over to the STF messages, Bolsonaro’s defense lawyer Celso Vilardi, asked Cid during the STF interrogation on June 9, if he had talked about the content of his denunciation with others on Instagram. He denied. Then Vilardi wondered if he knew a profile called “Gabrielar702”. Cid replied that Gabriela is her wife’s name, but she didn’t know if that was her profile.
Days later, Veja magazine published messages attributed to this profile, about ICD denunciation. To the STF, Lieutenant Colonel’s lawyers denied that he was the author of the dialogue and asked for the investigation of the account. Moraes answered the request and determined that the goal send the data.
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Following the delivery of messages to the Supreme Court last week, Moraes had a camera arrested and determined that he and Kuntz be investigated for a possible obstruction of justice.
“The conduct reported in the case file, indicating, at this time, the possible attempt to obstruct the investigation, by Marcelo Costa Câmara and his lawyer Luiz Eduardo de Almeida Santos Kuntz, who unlawfully overflowed the legal obligations of lawyer,” said Moraes.
In the data sent by the goal, there is a record of a conversation between Kuntz, the profile “Gabrielar702” and Paulo Amador Cunha Bueno, one of the lawyers of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s team.
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To the Supreme Court, Cid’s defense claims that Kuntz and Wajngarten tried to contact Cid through one of his underage daughters. Wajngarten would also have sought the military’s wife. According to the defense, Kuntz and Paulo Costa Bueno also approached the lieutenant colonel’s mother at events in São Paulo. “They surrounded it in the sense of demoid the defense then made up of Mauro Cid,” said the lawyers of the whistleblower.
By social network X, Wajngarten stated that he received “tranquility” the information that he will have to give testimony to the PF. “The criminalization of law is the smoke curtain to try to hide the express lack of voluntarity of the defendant whistleblower Mauro Cid and the consequent nullity of the collaboration. It causes indignation and not surprising that the decision of the minister is widely publicized while the reasons that allegedly motivate them are confidential,” he said.
