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RIO – The Civil Police of Ceará arrested Miguel Carolino de Amorim, brother of the mayor and candidate for re-election Naumi Amorim (PSD), in a lawsuit in Caucaia, Gran Fortaleza, this Saturday morning. A large amount of cash was taken from Miguel and four other city clerks, part of which was hidden in underwear and part of it in bags. The suspect is an electoral crime and the prisoners were transferred to the headquarters of the Federal Police in Fortaleza.
According to the Secretariat of Public Security and Social Defense (SSPD), the arrest occurred in an approach by the Civil Police to a suspicious vehicle. When searching them, the agents found money, a list of names and other objects that support evidence of electoral crime. At the headquarters of the PF the men will be heard and the amount apprehended will be counted, not yet officially revealed. According to information from the newspaper “O Povo”, the amount found exceeds one million reais.
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The blatant ended up filmed by people passing by and the images began to circulate on social networks. In the video appears Antonio Uedson da Silva, deputy attorney general of the Municipality of Caucaia, being approached with bundles of money in his pants. In addition to Carlinhos Gomes, vice president of the Municipal Transit Authority, the Secretary for Heritage, Assis Medeiros, and in the background, Miguel Carolino de Amorim, Naumi Amorim’s brother.
Naumi Amorim’s campaign confirmed that supporters were detained in the operation. The candidate’s coalition, for its part, affirms that it is seeking more details to position itself in the case. On a social network, the candidate made a video statement, without directly citing the episode. “We are not going to be discouraged by the persecutions. They want to win on the carpet, ”he said, without explaining the origin of the money.
In a statement, the mayor’s campaign coordination stated that “it is awaiting the result of the procedures adopted by the competent authorities and remains absolutely calm and ready to collaborate with the investigations.”
The arrests occurred during “Operation Elections 2020-2 Round”, which has more than four thousand security professionals to supervise the second round of voting in Fortaleza and Caucaia, the second largest electoral college in Ceará.
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In an interview, the minister and president of the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Luís Roberto Barroso, justified the sending of troops to Caucaia because in the city there is a “concern that falls on all of us, in all the regional electoral courts (TRE), which is politically motivated violence. “
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