O general Walter Souza Braga Netto obtained the money used to finance the attempted coup with “agribusiness people”, according to the Federal Police (PF) investigation. The information appears in the testimony of Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, former aide-de-camp to Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
To PF, . Also according to Mauro Cid, the former minister said at the time that the financing had been obtained from “agribusiness people”.
president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and vice Geraldo Alckmin (PSB).
The information is contained in the STF decision, which ordered the arrest of Bolsonaro’s former minister this Saturday (14). According to investigators, Braga Netto acted “intentionally” to obstruct the Federal Police investigations into the attempted coup d’état in 2022.
According to the investigation, the developments of the investigation and Cid’s new testimonies “revealed the very serious participation of Walter Souza Braga Netto in the facts investigated, in a true role of leadership, organization and financing, in addition to demonstrating relevant evidence that the person represented acted, repeatedly , to embarrass the investigations.”
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The PF executed two search and seizure warrants and one precautionary measure in Brasília and Rio de Janeiro. In addition to Braga Netto, the PF also carried out searches against retired colonel Flávio Peregrino, an assistant to the former minister during the Bolsonaro government.
Braga Netto was at his residence, in Copacabana, in the south zone of Rio de Janeiro, at the time of the operation. The general will be detained in a military facility linked to the Eastern Military Command.
CNN sought Braga Netto’s defense, but there has been no response yet.
