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The former superintendent of the Federal Police in Rio de Janeiro, Ricardo Andrade Saadi, said, in a statement given to the PF on Monday (11), that he does not know the reason why he was exonerated from his post in 2019. He said that the Then PF General Director Maurício Valeixo confirmed that his departure was an “application”, but did not say from whom.
In his testimony, also given this Monday, in Curitiba (PR), Valeixo stated that Saadi’s request to leave came from the then Minister of Justice and Public Security, Sérgio Moro, who in turn said that President Jair Bolsonaro wanted to put the delegate Alexandre Saraiva from Amazonas in charge. At that time, in a statement in front of the Alvorada Palace, Bolsonaro confirmed to the press that he wanted to change the Rio superintendent. He even mentioned an alleged productivity problem.
Saadi repudiated the presidential version saying, in Monday’s testimony. He said that when he took over the Superintendency, between March and April 2018, the unit was in position 24 in the “index of operational productivity of the Directorate of Investigation and Combat of Organized Crime.” When Saadi left office in August 2019, he said the unit had reached fourth place in the ranking.
The delegate said that, on the morning of August 15, 2019, he received a call from Maurício Valeixo, in which the director general stated that he wanted to “advance the exchange plans of the Superintendency of Rio de Janeiro” and wanted to remove Saadi “to Brasilia, without revealing possible reasons for this.” At the end of 2018, Saadi had already told Valeixo that he would like to move to Brasilia or São Paulo, where he has relatives.
Shortly after the August 2019 call, Saadi received a message from a colleague presenting news of Bolsonaro’s statements at the Palácio da Alvorada. Saadi called Valeixo again.
“After reading the news, the declarant [Saadi] He spoke again with the director general by phone and said that there had been a request to change the superintendent of the Federal Police of Rio de Janeiro and that he would have accepted, since the declarant had already expressed interest in returning to Brasilia or São Paulo, ” Saadi said, according to the statement in his statement. ” The then director general reserved to affirm that there had been such a request, without clarifying its origin or other details. “
If the intervention was confirmed in his position in Rio, Saadi provided elements that will be highly respected by Bolsonaro’s defense, since he declared that he never received a “formal or oral request” from the Presidency of the Republic “or from third parties on his behalf. . “, to” interfere with the investigations “, including” possible investigations related to President Jair Bolsonaro, his relatives or people related to him “.
The former superintendent also said that “he has not received any formal or informal request for information about an ongoing investigation by Senator Flávio Bolsonaro related to the news of misappropriation of resources by his former advisers in the Rio de Janeiro Legislative Assembly.”
