According to the investigations, Silvinei Vasques would have given illegal orders to the Federal Highway Police to perform operations to make voters’ traffic difficult on the day of the second round of elections
The former director of denied this Thursday (24) to have determined the realization of illegal blitzes in the To bar the displacement of voters from the president in the 2022 elections. Vasques is one of the defendants of core 2 of the coup plot’s criminal action and was questioned by Judge Rafael Tamai, auxiliary magistrate of Minister Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Court (STF), rapporteur of the case. According to the investigations, Silvinei would have given illegal orders to PRF police to perform operations to hinder voters’ traffic on October 30, 2022, in the second round of the elections.
At the hearing, Silvinei Vasques said the purpose of operations was to avoid electoral crimes such as illegal voter transport and highway closure across the country, not only in the Northeast, where Lula obtained greater vote compared to the then reelection candidate Jair Bolsonaro. According to him, there was no determination of former Justice Minister Anderson Torres, who is also a defendant and to whom the PRF was subordinate, for the performance of illegal operations. “Everything we received from determination, I understood that we should accept. I understand it was the legal duty. I didn’t see in the minister’s speech of any illegality. That’s what we took to the PRF,” he said.
The interrogation of the defendants is one of the last phases of criminal action. The trial is expected to decide on the conviction or acquittal those accused of core 2 will take place in the second half of this year. PGR’s complaint about the coup plot was divided into four nuclei. Nucleus 1, formed by former President Jair Bolsonaro and seven other defendants, was questioned last month. This part of the process is in the final allegations, last phase, and must be tried in September.
Operations in the Northeast
According to data from the investigation, the PRF staff in the second round of elections in 2022 was higher in the northeast region than in the other regions of the country. On October 30, the staff used was 795 police officers, while 230 (northern region) were employed; 381 (Midwest), 418 (South) and 528 (Southeast). The number of buses stopped by the inspection was also above average compared to other regions of the country. In the Northeast, the total reached 2,185 vehicles. In the other states, there were 310 (north); 571 (Southeast), 632 (South) and 893 (Midwest).
*With information from Agência Brasil
