The Brazilian Federal Police launched this Thursday operation against former President Jair Bolsonaro and several of his alliess, including former Defense Minister Walter Braga Netto, for his alleged participation in conspiracy to keep him in power after the October 2022 elections.

Agents They broke into Bolsonaro’s home in Angra dos Reis. in the state of Rio de Janeiro to simultaneously register They asked him to hand over his passport.

In addition to confiscating the passports of all suspects, precautionary measures also include ban on leaving the country, communicate with each other and suspend the performance of their public functions.

“I left the government over a year ago and continue to suffer relentless persecution. Forget about me, “They already have someone else running the country.”take the diary Folha de Sao Paulo that Bolsonaro protested during the police operation.

Police executed about thirty search warrants and four more for preventive detention, including reports from two former Bolsonaro advisers, Filipe Martins and Colonel Marcelo Camara, as well as Army Special Forces Major Rafael Martins as part of Operation Tempus Veritatis.

Among those investigated are former Minister of Defense, Paulo Sergio Nogueira, former head of justice Anderson Torres, who had been in prison for months following the January 8 attacks, and leader of the Liberal Party, Waldemar Costa Neto, former commander of the Navy Admiral Almir Garnier and former head of the Security Cabinet, General Augusto Heleno Ribeiro.

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According to investigators, the suspects distributed the so-called.unsubstantiated theories about fraud in the 2022 elections before they were carried out to legitimize the subsequent military intervention.

The conspiracy will consist of two parts, the first of which will be carried out by the so-called “digital militias”responsible for distribution through media and social networks alleged irregularities in the electoral process, while in the second case, which will be approved by some of the military, there will be a coup.

(Europe Press)