2024-02-11 13:48:42
The police raided the home of four former Bolsonaro ministers and arrested four former assistants of the former president.
Brazilian police confiscated the passport of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is accused of attempting a coup d’état, after the presidential elections of January 8, 2023.
The judicial investigation revolves around the eventual responsibility that the former president had to annul the electoral resultspressuring military leaders to join a coup attempt, and plotting to imprison a Supreme Court judge.
Given this, they raided the home of four former Bolsonaro ministers and arrested four former assistants of the former president.
According to local media, the operation was called Time of Truth and was carried out in nine states of Brazil and the Federal District with the objective of “investigate the criminal organization that acted in the attempted coup d’état“.
Thus, Police served 33 search warrantsin addition to confiscating passports to prevent some of those investigated from leaving the country.
“The passport has already been delivered to the competent authorities“, indicated on the social network X, Bolsonaro’s advisor and lawyer, Fabio Wajngarten.
“I have not governed for more than a year and I continue to suffer relentless persecution“, responded the former Brazilian president in statements to the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper. “Forget about me,” he added.
The decision of the Supreme Court judge, Alexandre de Moraes, which triggered the raid, indicated that the Jair Bolsonaro received a draft decree in November 2022 prepared by your advisors for overturn the election results and issue arrest warrants against Moraes, Supreme Court Justice Gilmar Mendes and Senate Leader Rodrigo Pacheco.
According to the police report, Bolsonaro also summoned military commanders and pressured them to support a coup d’état.