The former president Jair Bolsonaro denies having received any document referring to a “coup draft” from the former advisor for International Affairs to the Presidency, Filipe Martinsarrested this Thursday, 8th, after a Federal Police operation.
To VEJA, Bolsonaro stated that he did not even deal with his former assistant. “No draft coup document ever reached me, nor did I ever sign anything related to it. Especially because no one does a ‘hit’ with paper,” he declared.
According to a statement from Bolsonaro’s former aide-de-camp, Mauro Cidto the Federal Police, Martins would have been responsible for handing the former president a document that detailed instructions for a possible coup d’état after Luiz Inácio’s victory Lula da Silva at the end of 2022. According to the PF, the three-page draft contained step-by-step instructions for the now former president to regain power. The plan included the annulment of the election, the removal of ministers from the Federal Supreme Court (STF) who allegedly had interfered in the result and the declaration of military intervention in the country until new elections were held.
In one of the excerpts of the decision that authorized the arrest warrants and search and seizure of the operation, corroborated by the opinion of the Attorney General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet, according to the investigation, the former president even “edited” the draft coup drafted by advisors and delivered to him by Filipe Martins, in November 2022.
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The PF operation was launched after information provided by Cid in the collaboration agreement and targeted the existence of a criminal organization that had acted in the attempted coup d’état and abolition of the democratic rule of law. According to the investigators, to “obtain a political advantage” by maintaining Bolsonaro’s power, the target of restrictive measures imposed by Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF.
In addition to Martins, the Army colonel Marcelo CâmaraBolsonaro’s former aide-de-camp in the Presidency and current security guard for the former president hired by the PL, and the Army major Rafael Martins de Oliveirawho served in the corporation’s Special Forces battalion.
The president of the PL, Valdemar Costa Neto, also ended up being detained. Initially, he did not have any arrest warrant for him, just a search and seizure warrant. When carrying out investigations at the party headquarters in Brasília, the police found a weapon with an irregular registration on the chief, which led to his arrest for illegal possession of a firearm.