Lieutenant Colonel arrives at the Federal Supreme Court’s trial on the risk of losing them two years ago in his award-winning denunciation.
He decided to become the first military whistleblower in the country’s history after seeing the general, involved in the sale of state gifts received during the government of ().
Mauro Cid was accompanied by his lawyers with the proposal for an exactly awarded collaboration agreement two weeks after Lourena Cid was the target of search.
According to the agreement, in exchange for speaking everything he witnessed in the government’s final stretch, Cid would be sentenced to a short penalty and would avoid judicial impacts on his family members.
The denunciation, however, was marked by the military’s will. He did not share important information for the investigation in the first testimonials and changed a version of key figures in the process, such as the former minister.
The (Attorney General’s Office) asked the Supreme Court to convict Mauro Cid for the crimes of coup, attempted abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, armed criminal association, damage qualified to public heritage and deterioration of private heritage.
It also suggests that the benefits are maintained, but to a smaller degree. Cid wanted a maximum of two years of imprisonment, and PGR calls for the reduction of only one third of the sentence.
See everything that weighs against Mauro Cid, according to the complaint:
PGR says that Mauro Cid played “relevant role in strategic meetings with specialized military man” to operationalize the coup d’état. One of these meetings, according to the prosecution, would have occurred at the home of former Minister Walter Braga Netto, on November 12, 2022.
“The defendant confessed to being responsible for scheduling a meeting with other military personnel […] At the house of General Braga Netto, with the objective of planning action of strong social impact that justified the decree of the state of exception, “says Gonet.
The accusation says that the meeting served that Lieutenant Colonel Rafael Martins de Oliveira and Braga Netto initiate planning for a mission called Cup 2022, whose objective was to neutralize the minister.
The defense denies the Supreme Court that Cid was aware of the Plan Copa 2022 and says this excerpt from the accusation is the “most complex in the sense of proof in the file.”
The PGR says that Mauro Cid met with the special forces training military – so -called “black kids” – to elaborate an open letter by pressing the army commander to “adhere to the coup that was being planned.”
The meeting took place on November 28, 2022, when the military were in Brasilia to advise the generals of the high command gathered in the federal capital.
According to the prosecution, the “agenda of the meeting, as seen, was documented by and leaves no doubt of its coup character”. “The open letter, known to be subversive to the internal hierarchy, was released on the internet on the same day of the meeting,” he says.
The army held an inquiry and identified four authors of the document. However, none of them attended the meeting indicated in the complaint.
Mauro Cid’s defense does not mention the meeting in his final allegations. In testimony, Lieutenant Colonel said that at the meeting, it was not discussed coup or plans to press the heads of the forces to support Bolsonaro’s scammer plans.
“I would like to characterize this meeting as a bar conversation. Bar chat. No one presented a document, no one sat down to organize [a pressão contra os comandantes militares]”, these cid.
Bolsonaro spokesman
The Attorney’s Office presents different versions of Mauro Cid’s position in the coup plot. At the beginning of the final allegations, he says that the military had “less decision autonomy” and acted as a “spokesman for Jair Messias Bolsonaro, conveying guidance to other members of the group.”
In another excerpt from the same document, PGR says Cid had a strategic position and was a “decisive figure in the plans and actions of the criminal organization.” “His performance was fundamental to enable, in a practical way, the objectives outlined by the criminal organization,” he adds.
The defense says that the functional bond between the former orders of orders and the former president is not enough to put the military within the criminal organization. She argues that Mauro Cid had “supporting role as an order helper […]without decision -making powers or influence on the planning of events that PGR points to being criminals. “
Omissions in the denunciation
Paulo Gonet states that Mauro Cid omitted important information for the investigation in his statements to the Federal Police – with a highlight for an alleged initial shield to Braga Netto, whom he accused only at the end of the process of delivering cash to make scammer plans viable.
Cid’s contradictions, in the PGR view, must be considered in defining the size of the benefit that will be granted by the Supreme in its award -winning collaboration.
“The omission of serious facts, the adoption of a selective narrative and the ambiguity of behavior undermine only the defendant himself, without affecting the probative collection of this criminal action,” he says.
The defense argues that Cid did not omit information in his denunciation, but understood the severity of facts witnessed only after the revelations of the coup plans by the Federal Police.
“The position of the Attorney General’s Office understanding that the information brought by the employee effectively contributed to the clarification of the facts and dynamics of events […] It is manifestly incompatible with the request for subtraction of the benefits adjusted in the agreement, “he concludes.
