[ad_1]
President Jair Bolsonaro attended a meeting on August 25 with the lawyers of his son, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (Republicans-RJ). The objective was to debate alleged “irregularities in the information contained in the Tax Investigation Reports” prepared by federal agencies on the senator. The minister of the Office of Institutional Security, Augusto Heleno, and the director of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin), Alexandre Ramagem, also attended the meeting.
The meeting, which was not registered in the official agendas of the president or Augusto Heleno, was revealed today by the magazine. Time and confirmed by Status.
Since July 2018, Flávio Bolsonaro has been investigated by the Rio State Public Ministry (MP-RJ) on suspicion of embezzlement, money laundering and criminal organization. The investigation began with a report from the Financial Activities Control Council (Coaf). The work identified “atypical financial movements” of 75 aides or former aides of state deputies in Rio.
Fabrício Queiroz, Flávio’s advisor when the president’s son was a Rio de Janeiro state deputy, was one of those mentioned. It moved R $ 1.2 million between January 2016 and January 2017. The amount was incompatible with its income. The MP suspects that Queiroz operated, at Flávio’s request, a “cracked” scheme. That is, he would collect most of the salaries of his colleagues to pass them on to the president’s son.
Both Queiroz and Flávio deny any wrongdoing. The senator today attributes the charges to “political persecution.” The real target would be the president’s government, he says. The Rio MP claims to act technically and within the law.
In a statement, Flávio Bolsonaro’s defense stated that “suspicions of irregularities were brought to the attention of the Office of Institutional Security” in reports on Flávio. The reason would be that the documents “differ greatly from the characteristics, content and form of the same reports prepared in other cases.”
Even according to Flávio’s lawyers, previous reports did not indicate any indication of atypical activity on the part of the senator.
The Presidency of the Republic had not ruled on the case until the publication of this text.
