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BRASÍLIA – In his first office as rapporteur of the investigation of President Jair Bolsonaro in the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Minister Alexandre de Moraes requested information from the Federal Police (PF) on other investigations related to the process. Among them is the investigation into the alleged electoral crimes of Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (Republicans-RJ), son of the president. The minister wants to be updated on the scene of these investigations, which may explain Bolsonaro’s interest in the PF. The STF process was opened precisely to determine if the president tried to interfere in the work of the Federal Police.
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The order, signed on Sunday but launched in the investigation this Tuesday, is brief: “Request information from the designated police authority in these records on the progress of the investigations contained in judicial police order 458/2020 (folios 889). Go ahead. “
The document to which Moraes refers is dated August 21, 2020 and is signed by the delegate of the PF Christiane Correa Machado. In it, he mentions some investigations carried out outside the STF and that do not point to Jair Bolsonaro.
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On August 17, the 2nd Federal Prosecutor’s Office for Coordination and Review unanimously decided that the Public Ministry of Rio de Janeiro (MPRJ) should continue investigating the electoral inquiry into whether Flávio committed money laundering and electoral misrepresentation of the State. Electoral Justice. According to the decision, the records would be returned to the MPRJ so that the investigations could continue.
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In March, the Federal Police, which participated in the investigations, sent a report to the Court defending the closure of the case. At the beginning of May, prosecutor Alexandre Themístocles, head of the MPRJ in Electoral Zone 204, disagreed with this report, defending the continuation of the investigations and requesting the support of the MPRJ’s Specialized Action to Combat Corruption (Gaecc), whose promoters act in the case of alleged “crack” in the former office of Flávio in the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro (Alerj).
However, at the end of May Themístocles revised his position and asked that the case be closed because he understands that the deception has not been proven. With this, the case began to be analyzed by the 2nd Chamber of the MPF, which reviews the decisions of the order for presentation.
Bolsonaro’s case in the Supreme Court was reported by Minister Celso de Mello, who withdrew this month. In general, when someone leaves the Court, their demands go to his successor, in the case of Kassio Marques, appointed by Bolsonaro and approved by the Senate, but who will take office only next week.
At the request of former Justice Minister Sergio Moro, who left the government accusing the President of the Republic of interference in the FP, the President of the Court, Minister Luiz Fux, decided last week to remove a new rapporteur. With that, Moraes became a rapporteur. Moro is investigated in the same investigation.
