The former secretary of Julio Cesar Vieira Gomes, involved in the case of the release of the former president (), was fired on the 25th by the (Comptroller General of the Union).
According to the publication of the Official Gazette this Monday (1), the CGU adopted, as a basis, the final report of the disciplinary process opened against the civil servant which concluded that he failed to fulfill the functional duties of the position. Gomes is also prevented, by the ordinance, from holding federal public office for a period of five years.
having dealt directly with Bolsonaro about the release of goods that had been seized at customs in (Greater São Paulo).
The report has not yet located Vieira Gomes’ defense this Monday (1st). In previous demonstrations, he said he followed all legal guidelines and denied any attempt to interfere.
In 2023, the Sheet revealed, based on reports made on condition of anonymity, days before the end of the then president’s term.
The existence of the connection represented the first indication of direct participation by the then agent in the attempt to release the items.
The former head of Revenue told the corporation that he had spoken about the matter with Bolsonaro on two occasions. The first was a personal meeting in the first half of December 2022, possibly at Palácio do Planalto. The second was the phone call on December 27th.
In the final report on the case, under the statement that there was diversion or attempted diversion of items whose market value reaches R$ 6.8 million.
The first meeting with Bolsonaro in which the jewelry case was discussed took place, according to the testimony of the former head of the Revenue, to present the balance of his management as head of the Tax Authority.
“At the end of the meeting, the President of the Republic asked the declarant if he was aware of any seizure by the Federal Revenue Service resulting from a trip to Saudi Arabia”, says the transcript of the statement made by the PF.
“The declarant replied that he was not aware, but that he would research. […] When he returned to the Federal Revenue office, he asked a server who he doesn’t remember to check whether there really was a seizure and, naturally, the details of this seizure.”
Next, the former head of Revenue says he passed the results of the research to Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, then head of Bolsonaro’s Orders Assistance. “There was no action, no initiative by anyone, not even by the declarant, regarding this information in the following days.”
The second conversation between them was on December 27th. “Julio Cesar stated that on December 27, 2022, he received a call from Jair Bolsonaro to thank him for his management and, on that occasion, the former president asked if he had information about the research requested days before about the retained jewels. Julio Cesar reportedly told then-president Jair Bolsonaro that he passed the information on to Mauro Cid”, writes the PF in its report.
The PF concluded that the former president committed crimes of criminal association (with a prison sentence of 1 to 3 years), money laundering (3 to 10 years) and embezzlement/appropriation of public property (2 to 12 years).
Bolsonaro’s assistants were also subject to indictment, including the former Minister of Mines and Energy and Mauro Cid, who signed a plea bargain with the police.
