2023-08-13 02:17:56
A new investigation involving former president Jair Bolsonaro’s surroundings came to light this Friday (11/08), with the outbreak by the Federal Police (PF) of Operation Lucas 12:2, which investigates the alleged performance of a criminal organization. who embezzled and sold luxury gifts given to the federal government by foreign officials.
The suspicion, according to the PF, is that the amounts received in sales, carried out abroad, went directly into the pocket of the former representative, often in cash, so that there were no records of bank transactions in his name.
As part of the investigation, which carried out searches and seizures at addresses of Bolsonaro allies, the PF also asked for the ex-president’s bank and tax secrecy to be broken. The operation was authorized by the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes, who will also be responsible for the decision on the breach of secrecy.
Below, check out in six points what is known so far about the scheme for selling luxury objects.
The characters involved
Operation Lucas 12:2 carried out searches and seizures at addresses of four people close to the former president: Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, Bolsonaro’s former assistant and who has already been the character of other controversies involving the former president, such as the alleged falsification of the vaccination card; general Mauro Lourena Cid, father of Mauro Cid and former classmate of Bolsonaro at the Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras (Aman) in the 1970s; Lieutenant Osmar Crivelatti, also a former Bolsonaro aide; and Frederick Wassef, a lawyer who has defended the Bolsonaro family.
The operation investigates whether military personnel linked to the former president illegally negotiated jewelry and luxury items, whose value may have exceeded R$ 1 million. The objects were given to Bolsonaro as gifts during the period in which he was in the Presidency of the Republic.
According to the PF, the investigated facts constitute crimes of embezzlement and money laundering. The operation was named Luke 12:2 after verse 12:2 of the Bible, which says, “Nothing is hidden that will not be discovered, or hidden that will not be known.”
The origin of the investigation
Lucas 12:2 was authorized by Minister Alexandre de Moraes as part of an investigation into the so-called digital militias, which investigates the actions of a possible criminal organization on the internet that would act with the aim of attacking the Democratic State of Law and destabilizing democratic institutions. . As part of this investigation, opened after the end of the fake news inquiry, Bolsonaro’s surroundings began to be investigated.
The Court document authorizing Operation Lucas 12:2 specifically mentions the case of jewels coming from Saudi Arabia in October 2021 and which would have been illegally incorporated into the former president’s assets, in a case that came to light in March of this year. .
The Saudi pieces were gifts for then-president Jair Bolsonaro and his wife, Michelle, and entered the country in a delegation from the Ministry of Mines and Energy that was in the Middle East at official events.
What are the schema proofs?
In the decision that determined the carrying out of Operation Lucas 12:2, Moraes cites the progress of the PF investigations, pointing out that the money from the sales of gifts was sent to Bolsonaro “through intermediary persons and without using the formal banking system”. The goal would be to hide “the origin, location and ownership of values”.
Among the evidence obtained in the investigation is an audio that reveals a conversation by Mauro Cid, in which he mentions 25 thousand dollars “possibly belonging” to the former president.
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