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BRASÍLIA – The Institutional Council of the Federal Public Ministry, in a ruling issued this Wednesday, ordered the reopening of an electoral investigation against Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (Republicans-RJ) on suspicion of electoral ideological falsehood, rejecting a request from the senator’s defense to maintain the presentation of the case.
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This is the second investigation against Flávio Bolsonaro. The first, the case of the crack in his office as a state deputy in the Rio Legislative Assembly, ended last month with the filing of a complaint against the congressman on charges of crimes such as embezzlement and criminal organization. The electoral inquiry investigates whether he omitted the values of his properties in declarations to the Electoral Tribunal and whether there was money laundering in these transactions.
In May, the electoral prosecutor Alexandre Themístocles, from the Public Ministry of Rio, asked the Electoral Justice to close the case, confirming the position of the Federal Police due to lack of evidence of the crimes. However, in a judgment handed down on June 3, Judge Flávio Itabaiana, head of the 204 Electoral Zone and who also conducted the investigations of the crack case, disagreed with the presentation and referred the case to the Second Coordination and Review Chamber of the Office of the Attorney General (PGR).
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When analyzing the case, the 2nd CCR understood that it was necessary to deepen the investigations and determined that the case be resumed. The defense of Flávio Bolsonaro, however, filed an appeal before the Institutional Council of the PGR requesting that the file be maintained. This appeal was tried on Wednesday and, unanimously, the councilors decided to reopen the investigation against Flávio.
The institutional council of the MPF, in the processing of item 8 of the agenda, unanimously decided to dismiss the appeal to maintain the decision of the 2nd CCR that did not ratify the filing to determine, however, that the records be returned to the regional electoral attorney. with assignment for the appointment of the attorney-in-fact who will act in the case from then on ”, said the Deputy Attorney General of the Republic Célia Delgado, at the end of the trial.
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The investigation into the disparities in the declarations of Flávio Bolsonaro’s assets to the Electoral Justice began in 2018, based on a criminal report prepared by lawyer Eliezer Gomes da Silva. He noted that Flávio declared in 2014 and 2016 that he owned an apartment in the Laranjeiras neighborhood, but that he attributed different values to the same department each year. When running for re-election in Alerj, in 2014, Flávio declared the property worth R $ 565 thousand, but when he ran for mayor of Rio de Janeiro in 2016 he declared R $ 423 thousand, half of the assets, which in total it would be R $ 846 thousand.
In a statement, the defense of Flávio Bolsonaro affirmed that “the decision of the Institutional Council of the MPF only confirmed that the records will be sent to another electoral promoter so that he can decide on the result of the investigation.”
