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BRASÍLIA – Two statements made Tuesday to investigators from the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) and the Federal Police (PF) reinforce suspicions that President Jair Bolsonaro tried to interfere with the PF in Rio. Former local superintendent Carlos Henrique Oliveira confirmed that Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (Republicanos-RJ), the president’s son, was being investigated by Fluminense PF, while delegate Alexandre Saraiva said that last year Alexandre Ramagem, at Bolsonaro’s request , investigated him to take over the institution. in the state.
The president’s interest in the superintendency is one of the main points of the open investigation based on the accusations of former Justice Minister Sergio Moro. The testimony of Carlos Henrique Oliveira contradicts Bolsonaro’s statement the day before yesterday about the investigation of his family members by the PF. The president stated that “the Federal Police never investigated anyone in my family,” but the former Rio superintendent confirmed that there was an investigation against Flávio.
Understand: The contradictions between the testimonies of ministers, Bolsonaro’s speeches and the video reports of the meeting of the 22
This case was the investigation of the crimes of money laundering and electoral ideological falsehood by Flávio due to the difference in the declarations of his assets before the Electoral Justice in 2014, 2016 and 2018. As O GLOBO showed on the last day, the PF asked to file the investigation in March, without requesting a violation of the confidentiality of those involved during the investigation. The Prosecutor’s Office has not yet commented on the case.
Carlos Henrique left the command of the superintendency of PF-RJ at the beginning of the month, being replaced by Tácio Muzzi. However, his position had already been offered to him last year to delegate Alexandre Saraiva, current FP superintendent in Amazonas, who also testified yesterday. He said that, at the beginning of the second semester of 2019, he was asked to take the leadership in Rio. The contact was made, according to him, by the director of Abin, Alexandre Ramagem, the delegate that Bolsonaro tried to name in the general direction of the FP, in a decision prohibited by the Federal Supreme Court.
Saraiva reported that at the beginning of the second half of 2019, he received a call from Ramage “asking him if he would agree to take over the superintendency of the Federal Police in Rio.” The delegate says that “he accepted immediately”. The exchange ended without taking place, but the testimony confirms Bolsonaro’s own statements since last year that he was interested in the superintendency of Rio de Janeiro.
Video Disclosure
On Tuesday night, the testimony of military ministers ended with a chair at the Planalto Palace. The head of the Government Secretariat, Luiz Eduardo Ramos, stated that Bolsonaro complained about the Federal Police at the ministerial meeting of the 22 cited by Moro as evidence of the president’s interference. Yesterday, Bolsonaro said Ramos “made a mistake” in the testimony and insisted that he did not mention the PF.
In the testimony of Augusto Heleno, from GSI, it was recorded that, “according to the PGR,” Bolsonaro was talking about the PF superintendency in Rio when he said at the meeting about the need to protect his family and friends.
Tomorrow ends the deadline given by the reporter of the case in the STF, Celso de Mello, for the Office of the Attorney General and the Office of the Attorney General to express their opinion on the possibility that the entire video of the meeting, or only excerpts thereof, be disclosed.
Yesterday, Moro’s defense argued in favor of full disclosure of the material. President Bolsonaro, for his part, defended that only extracts directly linked to the investigation be made public, and not those that deal with “commercial matters, international relations or personal matters.” The decision will rest with Celso de Mello.
