Minister Cármen Lúcia, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), sent to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) another crime news against President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) for alleged interference in the work of the Federal Police investigating the former minister. of Education Milton Ribeiro. This Monday (27), the magistrate had already sent the PGR a crime news presented by the PT bench in the Chamber, by deputy Reginaldo Lopes (MG), last week.
The new complaint, made by federal deputy Israel Batista (PSB-DF), points to an “illicit interference” in the investigation into the alleged bribery scheme, through intermediation between lobbyist pastors and city halls, for the release of resources from the National Fund of Education Development (FNDE) at the Ministry of Education.
The congressman relied on information from the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) that President Bolsonaro had interfered in the investigations against the former minister. In the order, Minister Cármen Lúcia stated that there is “severity of the narrated situation”. ]
Federal Police speak of a “criminal organization” in a scheme to release funds at the Ministry of Education, previously headed by Milton Ribeiro / Alan Santos/PR
Last week, Federal Police (PF) delegate Bruno Calandrini sent a letter to the team of Operação Acesso Pago, which investigates the alleged corruption scheme in the MEC, in which he states that there was “interference in the conduct of the investigation” and that he has no “investigative and administrative autonomy to conduct the Police Investigation of this case with independence and institutional security”.
In addition to the suspicions of interference, there is an audio of a telephone conversation, on June 9, between Ribeiro and his daughter, in which the former minister claims that President Bolsonaro called and said that there was the possibility of complying with arrest warrants. and search and seizure at the former minister’s house. Ribeiro tells his daughter that “this can happen, if there are indications” and that Bolsonaro had a feeling that they wanted to hit him through the former minister. In the end, the daughter warns that she called her father on the “normal cell phone”. The ex-minister then breaks the conversation and ends the call.
In another call intercepted by the PF, after Milton Ribeiro’s preventive detention, the ex-minister’s wife, Myrian Ribeiro, said that he “did not want to believe it”, but that he “was already aware” of what had happened. “To have rumors from above is because the deal was right,” Myriam said in a phone call.
For the PF, Myriam Ribeiro’s speech makes “believe that Milton Ribeiro would have known about a possible police operation”. The MPF, in turn, speaks of “an indication of leakage of the police operation and possible illicit interference by the President of the Republic Jair Messias Bolsonaro in the investigations”.
PT also triggers STF
Also on Monday (27), senators filed another crime report with the STF to investigate the alleged interference. Signed by PT senators Fabiano Contarato (ES), Humberto Costa (PE), Jaques Wagner (BA), Jean Paul Prates (RN), Paulo Paim (RS) and Paulo Rocha (PA) and by Senator Zenaide Maia (Pros), the The action indicates that it is not the first time that Bolsonaro has been accused of interfering in a judicial process.
“There are precedents as to its way of protecting its co-religionists”, the parliamentarians tell the STF. “The speech of the ex-minister, detected in a telephone interception […]brings an element of distortion of legality and violation of republican principles established in the Federal Constitution that give rise to investigation”, they say.
House Committee invites Anderson Torres
This Tuesday (28), the Labor, Administration and Public Service Commission of the Chamber of Deputies approved an invitation to the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Anderson Torres, to explain the alleged interference in Operation Acesso Pago.
Anderson Torres / Tom Costa/MJSP
“Any interference in an investigation of this magnitude must be rigorously investigated and those responsible and the privileged interests identified, which certainly are not to be confused with the public interest and the seriousness that is expected in situations of this kind”, said the authors of the request. , parliamentarians Reginaldo Lopes (MG), Rogério Correia (MG) and Bohn Gass (RS), all from the PT.
Opposition submits MEC CPI request
The President of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), must install the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) that will investigate the alleged corruption scheme in the Ministry of Education, whose request was filed this Tuesday (28) by Senator Randolfe. Rodrigues (Rede-AP), according to an investigation by the CNN Brazil.
Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG) / Jefferson Rudy / Agência Senado
Last week, Pacheco even said that the proximity to this year’s elections would hinder the installation of the CPI. But he signaled for the opening if the application meets all the requirements.
Milton Ribeiro’s right-hand man missed four CGU call-ups
Odimar Barreto dos Santos, friend, former special adviser and right-hand man of former Minister of Education Milton Ribeiro, missed four summons from the Office of the Comptroller General (CGU) during investigations into the alleged corruption scheme, according to the Folha de São Paulo.
Depositions from officials from the portfolio to the CGU stated that Santos was designated by Ribeiro to assist pastors Arilton Moura and Gilmar Santos, who were negotiating bribes in exchange for negotiating FNDE resources.
Odimar would work in pairs with Luciano de Freitas Musse, also a former advisor to the MEC. According to the MPF, on one occasion, Musse received R$ 20,000 from a businessman from Piracicaba during negotiations to organize an event with Milton Ribeiro.
PT charges Minister of Justice for motorcycle riders
The PT bench in the Senate sent a letter to the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Anderson Torres, asking for explanations about the “very serious” infraction committed by Bolsonaro when participating in motorcycle riders without the use of a helmet, going against the Brazilian Traffic Code.
In the letter sent this Monday (27), the party says that Bolsonaro’s behavior has become “an inhuman and cruel act, an affront to civility” in the face of the murder of Genivaldo de Jesus Santos, who was asphyxiated with pepper gas, after being approached by the Federal Highway Police (PRF) for driving a motorcycle without a helmet.
Motorcycle rider with Bolsonaro / Filipe Araújo / AFP
“It is symbolic to realize that this infraction, which is committed repeatedly by the president, was committed again two days before the one month after the violent death of Genivaldo. infraction committed by Genivaldo costs him his life”, writes the bench.
Daniel Silveira asks for the extinction of sentences
The defense of federal deputy Daniel Silveira (PTB-RJ) filed an appeal with the STF against the precautionary measures and fines imposed by Minister Alexandre de Moraes. Lawyer Mariane Andréia Cardoso also asks that the deputy’s punishment be declared extinct. She talks about “disproportionality” in sanctions.
In the request, it requests that “sanctions for the alleged failure to comply with electronic monitoring be removed until the criminal expertise is carried out to assess the functioning of the electronic anklet, as requested in other opportunities”.
Still, the lawyer asks that “the application of a fine for the displacement of the appellant be dismissed [Daniel Silveira] to the state of Amazonas, since it is a question inherent to the exercise of the parliamentary mandate”.
And that “the total ineffectiveness of the precautionary measures, including the fines imposed on the Appellant, be declared, canceling them retroactively, given the presumption of constitutionality of the Presidential Decree that granted individual pardon (grace) and the requests made by the Parquet [Ministério Público]”.
Daniel Silveira displays the decree with the pardon granted to him by Jair Bolsonaro / Evaristo Sa / AFP
“With the evident intention of affecting the Appellant, the rapporteur minister [Alexandre de Moraes] not only ignores ministerial understanding. There is a clear and unequivocal denial of jurisdiction when it fails to analyze, repeatedly, the requests of the defense and the prosecution, perpetuating the maintenance of precautionary measures in a totally unjustifiable way, denying validity to a perfect legal act (decree) that was not suspended by decision. court (injunction) despite the fact that such a request was submitted within the scope of the ADPF”, says the lawyer.
Editing: Rodrigo Durao Coelho
