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BRASÍLIA – Federal Police agents, commanded by a delegate, arrived around 6 in the morning on Wednesday to conduct a search and seizure at the residence of Senator Chico Rodrigues (DEM-RR), former deputy director of the Bolsonaro government in Senate. Police action developed with a certain normality. The police asked the senator to open an existing safe in his room, where they found, in cash, R $ 10,000 and US $ 6,000. But it was the large volume inside Senator Chico Rodrigues’ shorts that ended up attracting the attention of delegate Wedson Cajé, who carried out the action.
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At one point in the records, the senator asked to go to the bathroom. Cajé authorized him, but said he would accompany him. It was at this moment that he noticed the sheer volume inside his shorts.
The Federal Police report recorded the unusual scene in the following terms: “At this moment, Deputy Wedson realized that there was a large volume, rectangular in shape, on the back of Senator CHICO RODRIGUES’s tunic, who was wearing blue shorts (like pajamas). and a yellow T-shirt. Considering the volume and its shape, Congressman Wedson suspected that the senator was hiding securities or even a cell phone. When asked about what was in his clothes, Senator CHICO RODRIGUES was quite scared and said there was not anything.
Faced with “well-founded suspicion,” the delegate informed the senator that he would need to conduct a personal search of him and asked the Federal Police to film the event, to avoid any suspicion of abuse of authority. “As shown in the images below, when making a personal search for senator CHICO RODRIGUES, at first, he found bundles of money in his underwear, near his buttocks, that totaled R $ 15,000.00, like it is described in 3 of the attached Term of Apprehension “, recorded the PF.
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But it wasn’t all the money yet. At the end of the search, the PF team was in the room of the senator’s residence completing the documents related to the event. In this final moment, the senator was asked if he had hidden any more money. Surprisingly, Chico Rodrigues pulled out even more of his own underwear. The PF then decided to do a last personal search and found a final value of R $ 250.00 still hidden in his underwear.
“Upon being questioned for the third time, with great anger, Senator CHICO RODRIGUES reached into his underwear and took out other bundles of money, which totaled R $ 17,900.00, as described in item 4 of the Term of Apprehension Thus, considering that Senator CHICO RODRIGUES insistently hid values in his underwear, this police team made a new personal search, at which time the amount of R $ 250.00 was placed in his underwear “. , recorded the PF.
On Thursday, Minister Luis Roberto Barroso ordered Chico Rodrigues to leave. The investigation raises suspicions that he acted to divert resources destined to fight the coronavirus.
