Queiroz arrives at the MPF to testify about the alleged leak of the Furna da Onça operation | Politics

The operation investigated corruption in the Legislative Assembly of Rio (Alerj), where Queiroz was an advisor to the then state deputy and today Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (Republicans-RJ).

Queiroz and his daughter Nathália should be heard at 3 in the afternoon by Attorney General Eduardo Benones, coordinator of the External Control of Police Activity of the MPF in Rio.

In the order obtained by TV Globo, the new testimonies are justified by the “need to continue the investigations, as well as to clarify issues and points that actually arose during the due diligence.”

The criminal investigation procedure investigates the allegations of leaks from Operation Furna da Onça in 2018. The information that Flávio Bolsonaro learned in advance about the operation is from businessman Paulo Marinho, a former ally of Senator Flávio Bolsonaro.

Marinho said that the senator learned of the operation – carried out on November 8, 2018 – because, according to him, the information was leaked by a delegate of the Federal Police to three aides and friends of him, in October, between the first and the second round. of the 2018 elections.

Also according to Marinho, by this warning, Flávio would have exonerated Queiroz from his position. And then federal deputy Jair Bolsonaro exonerated Queiroz’s daughter, Nathalia, from her office in the Chamber of Deputies. The exonerations occurred before the second round of the presidential elections that year.

In a first testimony on the subject, given in August, Queiroz said that he gave Flávio “satisfaction” for the “rachadinha” case, a practice in which part of the salary of the servants is given to the chief of staff. According to the former adviser, the congressman was surprised to be informed about it.

Operation Furna da Onça was launched on November 8, 2018. The action culminated in the arrest of several parliamentarians in the state of Rio and led the Council for the Control of Financial Activities (Coaf) to investigate the movements of the deputies.

It was during this operation that the investigators gave the name of Queiroz, suspected of administering a “cracked” scheme (confiscation of part of the salaries of public officials) in the office of Flávio Bolsonaro (Republicans-RJ), currently a senator and in that State deputy moment.

In the investigation of the “crack”, the Public Ministry of Rio de Janeiro considers Flávio Bolsonaro as the head of a criminal organization. In a document from last year, prosecutors appointed at least 13 advisers who passed part of their salaries to Fabrício Queiroz. The parliamentarian has always denied having committed illegalities.

Fabrício Queiroz and his wife, Márcia Aguiar, have been under house arrest since July. The former adviser spent 22 days in a closed regime, but was authorized to return home by the president of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), João Otávio de Noronha.

The decision was overturned by STJ Minister Felix Fischer, but the next day, Federal Supreme Court Minister (STF) Gilmar Mendes granted the couple a new home. Márcia Aguiar did not even go to jail, because she was fleeing before the first decision favorable to the home.