In the late afternoon of Wednesday (3), Justice of the Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes ordered the seizure of the passport of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
The decision was released after the outbreak of a Federal Police (PF) operation that resulted in the arrest of six people and search and seizure against 16 other people.
Bolsonaro and all the others investigated are accused of being part of a group that would have changed the vaccine status in the Ministry of Health system to “circumvent health restrictions”.
The former president denies the charges and does not rule out the possibility that the PF operation is a kind of retaliation for the failure of the Censorship Bill in the House and the establishment of the CPMI of January 8
According to the PF, in 2022, Bolsonaro’s then aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cesar Barbosa Cid, would have ordered the falsification of vaccination records for the then-president and his daughter, Laura.
According to the investigation, the data were included in the system of the Ministry of Health on December 21, 2022, and deleted three days later under justification of error.
In addition to the passport, Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the seizure of cell phones and weapons of the former president.
The decision triggered rumors about a possible arrest of Bolsonaro in the coming days.
THE OPERATION
The former president and advisors became the target of a PF operation (Operation Venire) – authorized by the Justice of STF, Alexandre de Moraes – which investigates an alleged “criminal association formed for the practice of crimes of entering false data vaccination against Covid-19 in the SI-PNI and RNDS systems of the Ministry of Health.
According to the Federal Police, the investigators have changed the vaccination status in the Ministry of Health system to access the vaccination passport and thus “circumvent health restrictions imposed” by Brazilian governors and the United States government.
The documents would have been used during the presidential delegation’s trip to the US in June 2022.
Bolsonaro returned to the country at the end of December last year after leaving his post as president.
Although several scientific studies and the pharmaceutical companies themselves have recognized the ineffectiveness of the anti-Covid “vaccines” against infection or transmission of the disease, the PF states that “the objective of the group would be to maintain cohesive the identity element concerning their ideological agendas, in this case, sustain the discourse aimed at attacks on vaccination against Covid-19.”
The targets of the search were:
- Jair Messias Bolsonaro, former president of the Republic
- Mauro Cesar Barbosa Cid, lieutenant colonel, former aide to Bolsonaro’s orders
- Gabriela Santiago Ribeiro Cid, wife of Mauro Cid
- Gutemberg Reis de Oliveira, a federal congressman for MDB-RJ
- Luís Marcos dos Reis, Army sergeant, a former member of Mauro Cid’s staff
- Farley Vinicius Alcântara, physician allegedly involved in the scheme
- João Carlos de Sousa Brecha, government secretary of Duque de Caxias (RJ)
- Max Guilherme Machado de Moura, Bolsonaro’s security guard
- Sergio Rocha Cordeiro, Bolsonaro’s security guard
- Marcelo Costa Câmara, special advisor to Bolsonaro
- Eduardo Crespo Alves, military
- Marcello Moraes Siciliano, a former councilman from RJ
- Ailton Gonçalves Moraes Barros, candidate for state congressman (PL-RJ) in 2022
- Camila Paulino Alves Soares, nurse at the Duque de Caxias City Hall
- Claudia Helena Acosta Rodrigues Da Silva
- Marcelo Fernandes de Holland
The prisoners are:
- Lt. Col. Mauro Cid Barbosa, Bolsonaro’s former orderly
- Max Guilherme, military police officer, Bolsonaro’s security guard
- Sérgio Cordeiro, army military, Bolsonaro’s security guard
- João Carlos de Sousa Brecha, secretary of Government of Duque de Caxias (RJ),
- Luís Marcos dos Reis, army sergeant, a former member of Mauro Cid’s staff
- Ailton Gonçalves Moraes Barros, candidate for state congressman (PL-RJ) in 2022
With information from Brasil Sem Medo
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