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Until the middle of the year, the lawyer Frederick Wassef, who served in the defense of Jair Bolsonaro and his son Flávio, was a constant figure in the Palácio da Alvorada and in the events of the Palácio do Planalto.
That was until the São Paulo Civil Police, on June 18, knocked on the door of his property in Atibaia to arrest Fabrício Queiroz, former adviser to the president’s son 01.
The preventive detention order was issued by the Rio de Janeiro Justice, in a development of the investigation that investigates the cracking scheme in the state Legislative Assembly.
The operation was called “Angel” in reference to the nickname that the Queiroz family gave Wassef.
Following statements in which he denied hiding the former police officer on his site, Wassef presented unrelated versions of why he put Queiroz at the property, which looked more like a captivity.
He said he never spoke to the former prime minister, although investigators found he had been hiding on the property for at least a year.
He also said that he did not know Queiroz was at his home on the day of his arrest. He then said that he allowed the former prime minister to stay there for a “humanitarian problem“For the treatment of Flávio’s former advisor against cancer. In short, he talked a lot without explaining anything.
Like a bomb about to explode in the Bolsonaro family’s lap, he said:
“Everyone is convinced today that Fred has become the target. If hitting Fred hits the president, the president and I become one person.“
Then he tried to get the president off the subject: “Never, never, President Jair Bolsonaro knew or had knowledge of these facts, these facts. That is my entire responsibility.“
Wassef dropped the Bolsonaro family cases three days after Queiroz’s arrest. The night he announced that he would leave the defense of the clan, Flávio praised the lawyer’s work and loyalty.
In the following months, The antagonist It’s in Crusoe He showed how the lawyer used his closeness to the President of the Republic to earn millions of reais from businessmen interested in solving problems in the government.
As we reveal, Wassef was hired in 2019 for R $ 5 million to provide “legal and strategic consulting”To the concessionaire Aeroportos Brasil Viracopos.
At that time, the concessionaire had signed a contract to re-tender the terminal in Campinas. Wassef met with Bolsonaro hours before the president met with representatives of Aeroportos Brasil Viracopos.
In addition to the meetings with Bolsonaro, Wassef organized meetings between the president of the board of Viracopos, João Villar García, Nico, with representatives of the National Civil Aviation Agency (Anac).
A Crusoe advanced in the story and also revealed that the lawyer promoted a second – more reserved – meeting between the businessman Nico and the President of the Republic, outside the official agenda, at night, at the Palácio da Alvorada. The case also involves Senator Flávio Bolsonaro.
In August, another reveal of Crusoe: Wassef received R $ 9 million from JBS, the slaughterhouse of brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista.
Without power of attorney, the Bolsonaro family’s lawyer visited the Attorney General’s Office at the end of 2019 to address matters of interest to the company. The informal visit was negotiated by the PGR’s own office, Augusto Aras, with whom Wassef had previously met.
In another report, Crusoe It showed that Bolsonaro took the initiative to request a meeting in the PGR between Wassef and the deputy attorney responsible for the JBS case.
In September, Wassef was subject to a search and seizure in Operation E $ burns S, which investigates the misuse of resources in System S in Rio de Janeiro. Denounced for embezzlement and money laundering, the lawyer is investigated on suspicion of having obtained R $ 2.7 million through the office of former prosecutor Luiza Nagib Eluf, hired by Fecomércio Rio with public money from Sesc / Senac Rio.
The investigation of the former lawyer of the Bolsonaro family is part of the investigation of the Federal Public Ministry on the use of resources from Sistema S to influence the STJ and TCU.
According to the MPF, former President Lula’s lawyers, Cristiano Zanin and Roberto Teixeira, led the scheme between 2012 and 2018. In the focus of the investigation, the misappropriation of more than R $ 300 million is alleged. In October, however, the investigation was suspended by Minister Gilmar Mendes, at the request of the OAB.
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