Former PF superintendent in Rio says he left office because ‘there was a request’ for his departure



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BRASILIA – Former superintendent of Federal police at River, Ricardo Saadi, He stated in testimony given on Monday that his resignation in August last year took place before the originally planned period and said he was informed that “there had been a request for a change of superintendent.”

Saadi’s testimony was provided in the investigation investigating President Jair Bolsonaro’s undue interference in the PF. Saadi left the post of superintendent in August last year after Bolsonaro’s public statements calling for the change of PF command in Rio. On the occasion, Bolsonaro tried to indicate a name for the position, delegate Alexandre Saraiva, but the PF prohibited that name and chose another delegate, Carlos Henrique Oliveira.

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The Superintendency PF of Rio de Janeiro is at the center of the investigation. By resigning, former Justice Minister Sergio Moro accused Bolsonaro of trying to interfere politically in the FP.

In his testimony, Saadi stated that he received a call from the then general director of PF Maurício Valeixo saying that “he had decided to advance the exchange plans of the Rio de Janeiro Superintendency.” According to the delegate, moments later he read the news with Bolsonaro’s statements that there would be a change of the Rio superintendent.

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According to Saadi, Valeixo informed him “that there would have been a request to change the superintendent” and that he agreed with the request, stating that the delegate already wanted to leave his position in Rio. Saadi says that the exchange was not due to “insufficiency” in his performance as head of the Superintendency and that the exact reasons for his departure were not presented.

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