Agents from the GSI (Institutional Security Office) found traces of environmental listening material, used to capture audio in a certain space, in the state governor’s office, at the Guanabara Palace.
According to the GSI, the wiretap was found on Tuesday (26) during a routine scan. The government claims that the material was “apparently old and ineffective.”
, alternates his work in the offices of the Guanabara Palace and the Court of Justice, which he also presides over.
The position of governor is currently the subject of legal dispute in the STF (Supreme Federal Court). A. The , claims the position indicating that he is ahead of the magistrate in the line of succession.
This Thursday (28), Ruas filed a new request with the STF to take over the state government. The case is awaiting return.
Last in the line of succession, the judge. The state was without a vice-governor because Thiago Pampolha left the position last year to take up a vacancy at the TCE (State Audit Court). The then president of Alerj, Rodrigo Bacellar (União Brasil), was removed from office due to the investigation into leaked information about an operation against a former deputy linked to Comando Vermelho.