Brazilian Federal Police brought charges against the former president Jair Bolsonaro To fraud in the records vaccination against him COVID-19, Local media reported this on Tuesday.

Authorities are seeing signs of foul play and false identity in a case investigating an illegal network that allegedly involved military officers, advisers, politicians and doctors to falsify vaccination cards and which allegedly benefited Bolsonaro and his inner circle.

According to investigators, a conspiracy was organized to falsify vaccination cards against covid disease in order for their beneficiaries to circumvent medical restrictions in third countries during quarantine. pandemic.

Police also named Bolsonaro’s former aide-de-camp, Lt. Col., in their final report. Mauro Cidand federal deputy Gutenberg Flight, parties Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB).

Now it will be Prosecutor’s office who will analyze the police findings and decide whether to make a formal complaint to a judge against Bolsonaro, who is being investigated in other trials, including for attempting to coup after the 2022 elections, which were won by the current ruler, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Fabio Weingarten, a spokesman and one of the lawyers of the far-right leader, criticized on his social networks the “leak” of the opinion of the Federal Police to the media.

“It’s a shame when authorities use the press to communicate with a formal actor, who, logically, should have technical and procedural coverage, rather than media and partial coverage,” he said.

In May 2023, as part of the case, police searched Bolsonaro’s home in Brasilia and then arrested six suspects, including Mauro Cid, two of his bodyguards and a soldier who acted as an adviser to the former head of state.

During the investigation, authorities found “indications of misrepresentation about the Covid-19 vaccine” against the then-president of Brazil, who ruled the country from 2019 to 2022.