See the main points of Sergio Moro’s testimony to the Federal Police | Politics

He was asked about allegations that President Jair Bolsonaro attempted to interfere with the work of the PF and in consultations related to family members. The charges were made by the former minister when he announced his departure from government on April 24.

In the testimony, Moro said that:

• President Jair Bolsonaro wanted to interfere politically in the federal police.
• Bolsonaro asked in February, by cell phone message, appoint a new superintendent for the Federal Police In janeiro river. The message, according to the testimony report, “had the following or less”: “Moro you have 27 Superintendencies, I only want one, the one in Rio de Janeiro”.
• cell phone message in which Bolsonaro was asked to indicate the superintendent PF in Rio was sent by the president in early March, when the then minister and then director general of the FP, Maurício Valeixo, were on an official mission to the United States.
• did not appoint or was consulted about the superintendent elections, choose the one that belonged exclusively to the General Directorate of PF.
• The reasons why Bolsonaro wanted to replace Valeixo in the general direction with Alexandre Ramagem should be asked by the president himself.
• did not sign Valeixo’s resignation nor did he receive any formal or written request for dismissal from the then director of the PF; The “Diário Oficial da União” with the document was published at dawn on April 24, originally signed by Bolsonaro and Moro, but then the government published a corrected edition.
• did not accuse the president of crime and that it depends on the investigators (the former minister said this several times during the testimony) and that the Office of the Attorney General spoke about the crime when he requested that the investigation be opened.
• In a meeting of the council of ministers on April 22, the president demanded the replacement of the superintendent of the FP of Rio and Valeixo.
• These meetings were recorded and had the participation of all the ministers. and the advisory staff of Planalto.
• chat chat with the president has several messages “that may be relevant to the investigation”.
• The FP of Minas Gerais “did an extensive investigation” in relation to stab Bolsonaro took during the electoral campaign, in September 2018, in Juiz de Fora and that “this was shown to the President in the first half of 2019, at a meeting that took place in the Palácio do Planalto.” At the meeting, according to Moro, Bolsonaro “did not present any setback in relation to what was presented to him.”
• there was no interference from the Moorish Ministry of Justice in the investigation of the Adélio case. At this point, Moro refuted some of the statements made by Bolsonaro after the minister announced that he would resign, when the president cited that he requested the replacement of the FP superintendent in Rio due to the “goalkeeper’s question, the Adélio case” and he quotes Jair Renan Bolsonaro, the president’s son, in an investigation.

The ex-minister’s testimony was motivated by an investigation opened by Minister Celso de Mello of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), at the request of the Office of the Attorney General, to determine if Bolsonaro tried to interfere politically with the Federal Police.

This alleged interference was the reason why Moro pointed out in a statement for leaving the government. The former minister made this announcement when the “Diário Oficial da União” published the dismissal of the director general of the Federal Police, delegate Mauricio Valeixo. According to the former minister, he had no prior knowledge of the director’s resignation.

The testimony of this Saturday was taken in person by PF delegates and accompanied by prosecutors who had authorization from the STF minister. They are: João Paulo Lordelo Guimarães Tavares, Antonio Morimoto and Hebert Reis Mesquita.

• TESTIMONY CONTENT: Bolsonaro asked for the PF command in Rio, says Moro
• WHOLE TESTIMONY: read the full PF report

See below the main points from PF’s report on Moro’s testimony:

Request for change in the Rio PF command

THAT during the period in charge of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, there were requests from the President of the Republic to replace the Superintendent of Rio de Janeiro, with a name indicated by him, and then replace the Director of the Federal Police, and, again , the Superintendent of the Federal Police in the State of Rio de Janeiro, who would have replaced the former, again with the names indicated by the President;

THAT in August 2019 there was a request from the Hon. President of the Republic to replace the Superintendent of the Federal Police in Rio de Janeiro, RICARDO SAAD;

THAT this request was made verbally, in the Planalto Palace (…)

Valeixo replacement

THAT even before, but mainly from that moment on, the President insisted on replacing the Director of the FP, MAURÍCIO VALEIXO;

ESO managed to demote the president of that replacement for some time;

THAT the matter returned with force in January 2020, when the President told the Declarant that he would like to appoint ALEXANDRE RAMAGEM as Director General of the Federal Police and VALEIXO would later go to an Adidância;

THAT this was said verbally at the Planalto Palace;

THAT, eventually General Heleno was present;

THAT this matter was known in the Planalto Palace by several people;

ESO thought of accepting to avoid unnecessary conflict, but concluded that it could not change the Director General without a cause and that, since RAMAGEM had close ties to the President’s family, this would affect the credibility of the Federal Police and itself Government. , hurting even the president;

THAT in early March 2020, I was in Washington on an official mission with Dr. VALEIXO;

ESO received a message through the WhatsApp application from the President of the Republic, requesting, once again, the replacement of the Superintendent of Rio de Janeiro, now CARLOS HENRIQUE;

THAT the message said, more or less, as follows: “I live in you have 27 Superintendencies, I only want one, the one in Rio de Janeiro”;

WHAT clarifies that he did not name and was not consulted on the elections of the Superintendents; THAT this election was entirely of the General Directorate of the Federal Police;

ESO did not even name the Superintendent of the Federal Police of Paraná;

THAT the reasons for this request understand that the President of the Republic must be asked; WHAT spoke about Director VALEIXO’s request for change, still in Washington;

THAT they even discussed the possibility of assisting the President to avoid a crisis;

ESO, however, Director VALEIXO stated that he would not be able to remain in office if there was a new causeless replacement for SR / RJ by a name indicated by the President of the Republic;

THAT Director VALEIXO stated that he was tired of the pressure for his replacement and for the replacement of the SR / RJ; THAT for this reason and also to avoid conflicts between the President and the Minister, Director VALEIXO said that he would agree to leave;

THAT at that time there was no request for interference or information on queries being processed in Rio de Janeiro;

THAT, for this reason, the Declarant, despite the resistance, considered accepting the exchanges, provided that the substitute for the Director General was of his technical choice and a person not so close to the President;

THAT later, however, he understood that he could not accept the SR / RJ exchange without cause either;

Thereafter, the RP’s insistence on replacing both the Director General and SR / RJ (…)

Someone ‘trusted’ PF

THAT as pressure for replacements increased, the President verbally informed him at the Planalto Palace that he needed people he trusted to be able to interact, call and obtain intelligence reports;

THAT on Thursday April 23, 2020, the President sent the Declarant by WhatsApp message a news link from the “oantagonista” website informing that the PF would persecute the Bolsonarista Deputies, THAT before the Declarant could respond, the President sent another message stating that this would be another reason for replacing the PF;

THAT the declarant was concerned about the message;

THAT the Declarant met with the President at 9:00 am on April 23, 2020 and dealt with the replacement of the Director General of the Federal Police;

THAT the President told him that VALEIXO would be exonerated, upon request or from his position, and that he would nominate DPF ALEXANDRE RAMAGEM, because he would be a reliable person of the President, with whom he could interact;

THAT the Declarant informed the President that this would represent political interference in the FP, with the shaking of the government’s credibility, all this during a pandemic;

THAT the Declarant also said that he could change the VALEIXO Director whenever there was a cause, such as a lack of performance or a serious error, but there was none of that;

THAT the Declarant asked the President to reconsider, but if that did not happen, the Declarant would be forced to leave and declare the truth about the replacement;

THAT the President regretted, but said that the decision was made (…)

Meeting of other ministers

THAT the Declarant met with the military ministers of the Planalto Palace and reported on the meeting with the President;

THAT the meeting was with the General Ministers RAMOS, HELENO and BRAGA NETTO;

THAT the declarant informed the reasons why he could not accept the replacement and also declared that he would leave the government and would be forced to tell the truth;

THAT on the occasion the declarant spoke of the President’s requests to obtain PF intelligence reports, which had even been collected by the President at the Cabinet Council meeting, in which Minister HELENO declared that the type of intelligence report that the president wanted there to be no provision;

THAT the Ministers promised to try to demote the President,

THAT the declarant returned to the MJSP in the hope that the matter would be resolved;

ESO soon leaked in the press that Planalto would replace VALEIXO and that, as a result, the Declarant would leave the government;

THAT the MJSP was contacted by many journalists and politicians who wanted to confirm, but that the declarant understood that he could not confirm, since he expected the president to change his mind (…)

WHAT asked if there was mistrust regarding Director VALEIXO, the Declarant replied that this should be done to the President; THAT the President himself accused at a meeting of the council of ministers, which took place on April 22, 2020, when PRÓ-BRAZIL, the replacement of SR / RJ, the Director General and the intelligence and information reports of the Police were presented Federal;

THAT the President declared that he would interfere in all the Ministries and as for the MJSP, if he could not change the Superintendent of Rio de Janeiro, he would change the Director General and the Minister of Justice;

WHAT indicates that these meetings were recorded, as a general rule, and the President himself, this week, threatened to publish a video against the declarer of one of those meetings;

THAT all the ministers and officials of the advisory council of Planalto participated in these meetings of ministers of the council (…)

THAT the declarant clarifies that he has only exchanged a few messages with the president, and even with other people, since in 2019, his messages were illegally intercepted by HACKERS, so he began to delete them periodically,

THAT the declarant clarifies that he deleted the messages not due to illegality, but to safeguard privacy and even relevant information about the activity he carried out, including matters of national interest;

THAT, in addition to the message mentioned above, the Declarant, when reviewing the chat with the President, identified several other messages that may be relevant to the investigation, including another message on the STF Consultation and another with the President’s determination that the Dr. VALEIXO would be “replaced this week on request or ex officio”, in addition to another that indicates his desire to replace the SR / PE;

THAT the declarant also highlights the messages that, in general, support other declarations made by the declarant, such as that he communicated delicate operations to the president, after the deflagration (…)

Request to leave the Ministry of Justice.

THAT on the night of April 23, 2020, he received unofficial information that the act of removal of Director VALEIXO had been sent for publication;

ESO sought confirmation of the fact in Planalto with the ministers BRAGA NETTO and RAMOS, with the first informed that they did not know and the second informed that they would check and return, but did not do so;

THAT, during the first hours of April 24, 2020, the publication was published, which made the dismissal of the declarant irreversible;

THAT the Declarant did not sign the decree of removal of MAURÍCIO VALEIXO and that the Declarant did not make a formal or written request for removal of the Director VALEIXO;

ESO, as far as he recalls, has never seen an act of the MJSP published without his signature, at least electronically;

THAT, due to what happened, he decided to exonerate himself and inform in a collective statement the reasons for his departure (…)

THAT the Declarant understood that there was a misuse of purpose in the dismissal of the Director MAURÍCIO VALEIXO, which would be followed by the probable appointment of DPF ALEXANDRE RAMAGEM, a person close to the President’s family, and the replacement of superintendents, all without cause. and what the President of the Republic would allow interacts directly with these nominees to compile, as the President himself admitted, what he called intelligence reports, as the President himself also admitted;

THAT subsequently, on the same April 24, 2020, the President of the Republic made a statement confirming various statements made by the Declarant, such as that the President could replace the Director General, the superintendents, anyone in the Pyramid of Power Federal Executive; THAT the President of the Republic, despite that, did not clarify the reason why he would make these substitutions, except that the Director VALEIXO would be tired but, once again, the Declarant reiterates that the tiredness of the Director VALEIXO was due to pressures for his replacement and superintendents (…)

THAT the President also alleged as reason for the dismissal of VALEIXO an alleged lack of commitment by the Federal Police in the investigation of possible directors of the assassination attempt perpetrated by ADÉLIO;

THAT the Federal Police of Minas Gerais carried out an extensive investigation and was shown to the President in the first half of 2019, at a meeting that took place at the Planalto Palace, with the presence of the Declarant, Director VALEIXO, the Superintendent of Mines General and with delegates responsible for the case;

THAT at that time, the President did not present any opposition to what was presented to him;

THAT this presentation to the President resulted from his condition of victim and also for reasons of National Security, the Declarant understood that there was no legal secret opposed to the President due to special circumstances;

THAT the investigation into possible criminals of the crime has not been completed due to a judicial decision contrary to the examination of the cell phone of ADÉLIO’s lawyer;

THAT the President had and is fully aware of this judicial obstacle;

THAT the Declarant understands that before the end of the investigations it is not possible to conclude whether ADÉLIO acted alone or not and that, in any case, the Declarant, contrary to what the President of the Republic publicly declared today (May 2, 2020 )) He never obstructed this investigation, on the contrary, he asked the Federal Police to do everything possible and even informed AGU, in person of the Minister ANDRÉ MENDONÇA, of the importance of AGU joining the cause to defend access. to cell phones, not for the President’s personal interest, but also for issues related to National Security (…)

Moro said that Bolsonaro did not commit a crime

WHAT asked if, in the facts presented at his press conference, he identified any criminal practice by HE. The President of the Republic clarifies that the facts narrated there are true, which, however, did not affirm that the President had committed any crime;

The one who spoke about the crime was the Attorney General’s Office that requested the opening of an investigation and now understands that this evaluation, regarding the practice of crime, corresponds to the competent institutions (…)