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The former director general of the Federal Police, Maurício Valeixo, said on Monday (11) in testimony that President Jair Bolsonaro called him to inform him that his dismissal would be published “on demand”.
The exonerations published in the “Official Gazette of the Union” with the term “on request” report that the person in charge asked to leave the post. When the term is not published, they indicate that the employee has been fired.
Valeixo was dismissed on April 24. The dismissal, published “on demand”, was signed by Bolsonaro and the then Minister of Justice, Sergio Moro. The case led Moro to resign as minister.
This is because, in announcing his departure from the government, Moro said that Bolsonaro had tried to interfere politically in the FP by removing Valeixo from office. Moro also said he had neither signed Valeixo’s resignation nor received the resignation request from the then CEO of PF.
Moro’s statements led to the opening of an investigation, authorized by the Federal Supreme Court, to investigate Bolsonaro’s alleged attempt at political interference with the PF.
On Monday, Valeixo was at the FP Superintendence in Curitiba to give evidence.
The testimony lasted more than six hours and, according to the columnist of the G1 and GloboNews Natuza Nery, Valeixo also said that Bolsonaro wanted someone with “affinity” in the PF General Directorate.
In the testimony, Valeixo was asked what would be his definition of “political interference” in the Federal Police.
He replied that: “For the declarant [Valeixo], from the moment there is an indication with interest about a specific investigation, it would be characterized by political interference, which did not occur at any time from the declarant’s point of view; that on two occasions, one in person and the other by telephone, the President of the Republic would have told the declarant that he would like to appoint someone with greater affinity to the post of Director General, without presenting any type of problem against the person of the declarant; that the declarant points out that the president has never dealt directly with him about the change of superintendents nor has he asked him for intelligence reports or information on investigations or police investigations. ”
“[Valeixo disse] who in June 2019 was consulted by former Minister Sergio Moro about the possibility of changing the superintendent of Rio de Janeiro, dr. Saadi, by dr. Saraiva, then superintendent of Amazonas; [disse também] which according to dr. Moro, that name had been fanned by the President of the Republic; who cannot say for what reasons the President of the Republic would have suggested that name, “Valeixo declared in another passage.
The director general of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin), Alexandre Ramagem, also gave testimony in Brasilia.
Ramage was even nominated by Bolsonaro for the position of CEO of PF. But the appointment was prohibited by STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes, who saw a deviation in the purpose of the act of the President of the Republic.
