The decision that ordered the investigation to be opened cites evidence of the crimes of false testimony, slanderous denunciation and coercion in the course of the process.
The Attorney General of the Republic Augusto Aras received Senator Marcos Do Val (Podemos-ES) this Friday, 3rd. The meeting was to talk about the alleged coup plan that the parliamentarian attributes to former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and former deputy Daniel Silveira (PTB-RJ).
Deputy Attorney General Lindôra Araújo and Deputy Attorney Carlos Frederico Santos, head of the Strategic Group to Combat Anti-Democratic Acts, a group created at the PGR to coordinate investigations into the acts of January 8, also participated in the meeting.
In a note, the PGR informed that it was the senator who asked for the hearing Marcos do Val will be investigated, by determination of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), for having given different versions of the case. The decision that ordered the opening of the investigation cites evidence of the crimes of false testimony, slanderous denunciation and coercion in the course of the process.
The PGR said, in a statement, that it will manifest itself ‘at the right time and following the legal criteria and procedural deadlines’.
“The Attorney General’s Office is waiting for a view of the investigation launched this Friday by the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moraes, to investigate the news object of the parliamentary statements”, says the note.
The senator’s versions place Moraes at the center of the alleged coup attempt, which STF interlocutors see as an attempt to remove Moraes from strategic and sensitive investigations of the former president and his allies.
Marcos do Val said in his testimony that former deputy Daniel Silveira (PTB-RJ) would have proposed, in a meeting in Bolsonaro’s presence, a clandestine recording of Alexandre de Moraes in an attempt to induce the minister to say ‘something in the sense of overcoming the four lines of the Constitution’. The objective would be to annul the election result and arrest Moraes, who is also president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).
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The senator also claimed that he met twice with the minister at the STF to talk about the alleged coup plan, once before the meeting with Bolsonaro, another after. The senator declared that he had not received any request to formalize the complaint, which the minister refuted.
Earlier, Moraes admitted that he was with Do Val in December, but only mentioned one meeting, after his supposed meeting with Bolsonaro. The minister also pointed out that he asked the senator at the time to testify about the case, but he would have refused to put his accusations ‘on paper’.
“I asked the senator if he would reaffirm that and put it on paper, that I would immediately take his statement. The senator said that this was a matter of intelligence and that, unfortunately, he could not confirm it. I got up, (did) say goodbye to the senator, thanked him for coming. Even because what is not official, for me, does not exist”, said Moraes during his online participation in the seminar organized by the Group of Business Leaders (Lide) in Lisbon. The minister defined the episode as ‘ridiculous’ and an attempt at ‘Operation Tabajara’.
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