The Deputy Attorney General of the Republic Lindôra Araújo defended in a statement sent to the Federal Supreme Court (STF) that former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) did not commit any crime or act of administrative impropriety by giving coup-like statements in a meeting with ambassadors, at the Planalto Palace, in July last year.
Thus, the representative of the PGR requested the filing of the investigation request against Bolsonaro made by deputies from the PT, PSOL, PV, PSB and PDT. Congressmen defended that the former president had committed a crime of responsibility and acts of administrative impropriety, in addition to a crime against the democratic rule of law and an electoral crime.
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Lindôra Araújo / National Council of the Public Ministry
According to the deputy prosecutor, “the proselytizing discourse of the person represented (Bolsonaro) does not have the power to incite, directly or indirectly, the participation of his supporters in criminal acts or aggression against democracy or even animosity between the Armed Forces and the Powers constituted”.
“(Not) justifies the activation of criminal justice to fight and repress the manifestation of apparently meaningless ideas, especially when dealing with issues related to political accountability, which is immune to the heavy force of criminal law.”
If the request at the STF is filed, Bolsonaro can still be held responsible for the statements, since there is an investigation in the same direction in progress at the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).
TCU minister prohibits Bolsonaro from wearing or selling jewelry
The minister of the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) Augusto Nardes prohibited, this Thursday (9), former president Jair Bolsonaro from using or selling one of the packages of jewelry that were illegally brought from Saudi Arabia to Brazil.
Nardes determined that the former president must keep the set of jewels “intact, as a trustee, until further deliberation by this court of accounts, refraining from using, disposing or disposing of any piece from the collection of jewels object of the process in exam”.
Bolsonaro confirmed that he incorporated one of the jewelry packages sent by Saudi Arabia into his private collection. This package was not intercepted by the Federal Revenue upon arrival in Brazil, unlike the package valued at R$ 16.5 million that was seized at Guarulhos International Airport. In total, the package that was left with Bolsonaro includes a watch, pen, cuff links, a ring and a type of rosary.
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Jewels that were seized at Guarulhos airport / Reproduction / Twitter
The TCU minister also determined that Bolsonaro and former Minister of Mines and Energy Bento Albuquerque, responsible for transporting the jewels to Brazil, be heard.
The magistrate stated that this is a case of “high gravity, either because of the value of the objects questioned, or because of the relevance of the positions held by the possible perpetrators of the irregularities dealt with”.
“However, with the exception of reports researched by the representatives in vehicles of great circulation, there is not enough documentation for a definitive conclusion of this court regarding the best way to be given to the present process”, he argued.
PF says Acre governor laundered corruption money
According to the Federal Police (PF), there are indications that the governor of Acre, Gladson Cameli (PP), used the purchase of luxury vehicles, planes and real estate and operations in cash and credit card to launder money from fraud schemes. corruption.
The governor was the target of the third phase of Operation Ptolemy, this Thursday (9), which investigates a “criminal organization, controlled by political agents and businessmen linked to the state executive branch of Acre, who acted in the diversion of public resources, as well as in the carrying out acts of concealment of the origin and destination of the amounts subtracted, through money laundering”, according to the PF.
Gledson Cameli / Diego Gurgel/Secom
In total, the PF was authorized to block BRL 120 million in assets of those investigated. In the case of the governor, the target of the operation was a Beech Aircraft model aircraft valued at R$ 1.5 million, an armored car valued at R$ 200 thousand, an apartment in São Paulo worth R$ 6.5 million, a house in Rio Branco (AC) for R$ 7 million and a property in Brasília for R$ 600 thousand.
New Lava Jato judge orders Eduardo Cunha to deliver luxury cars
Judge Eduardo Appio, from the 13th Federal Criminal Court of Curitiba, ordered the former president of the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Cunha, to hand over six luxury cars that were confiscated in the context of Operation Lava Jato, two Porsche Cayennes, one Ford Fusion, a Ford Edge, a Hyundai Tucson and a Passat Variant Turbo.
According to the Lava Jato task force, the cars had been blocked since October 2016 by decision of the then judge Sergio Moro, since they would have been acquired with bribe money. At the time, it was decided that the assets could not be sold or transferred. Now, the new Lava Jato judge has ordered the delivery of the vehicles.
Eduardo Cunha / Alex Ferreira / Chamber of Deputies
“I revoke, therefore, the respectable judicial order of this Federal Court (in the records of the request for preventive arrest of Eduardo Cunha 5052211-66.2016.4.04.7000 – decision of event 03 of the then federal judge Sérgio Moro) which had authorized the accused Eduardo Cunha (and his family members) were in possession of luxury vehicles”, wrote Eduardo Appio.
Editing: Nicolau Soares
