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President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) today resigned the possibility of personally justifying himself about the alleged interference he would have had in the PF (Federal Police), in an investigation that runs in the STF (Federal Superior Court) and that was opened after a complaint of ex. Minister of Justice and Public Security Sergio Moro. Through the AGU (Federal Prosecutor’s Office), Bolsonaro officially rejected the possibility of defense.
The decision was communicated to the rapporteur of the investigation at the STF, Minister Alexandre de Moraes. Moments after the event was reported, Moro’s defense said it received Bolsonaro’s decision with “surprise.”
In the petition, the AGU also suggests that the investigation be referred to the PF for the preparation of a final report that will be presented to the MPF (Federal Public Ministry), recalling that the period of extension granted to the investigations is coming to an end.
Bolsonaro’s face-to-face testimony had been determined in September by the then-investigative reporter, Minister Celso de Mello, who retired in mid-October. The president’s defense tried to give written testimony, but the trial on the matter in the STF was suspended at the time of Mello’s retirement.
In justification for the president to renounce the deposition, the AGU alleged that his presence was no longer necessary because the disclosure of the video of the ministerial meeting in which he suggested interfering with the PF makes it clear that the charges are “completely unfounded.”
The investigation against Bolsonaro at the STF resulted from Moro’s remarks when he left the government in April. The then Minister of Justice and Public Security, the former Lava Jato judge, affirmed that Bolsonaro would have tried to interfere in the command of the PF, an attitude that was one of the main reasons for his resignation.
One of the evidences of the alleged interference would be the recording of the ministerial meeting of April 22, which was released in full a month later. Bolsonaro claims that his speech at the meeting was about the exchanges he wanted to make in relation to the GSI (Office of Institutional Security), and not with the PF.
