Meanwhile, this afternoon Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes allowed former Justice Minister Anderson Torres, detained in the case, to go to a house arrest regime with an electronic anklet for humanitarian reasons.
The raids were carried out in the states of Saint Paul, parana and Mato Grosso do Sul at the request of the Federal Supreme Court and within the framework of the Lesa Patria operation, which has already prosecuted 550 of the 1,390 accused of having participated in the attempted coup carried out a week after Lula’s inauguration as president of Brazil.
“The blocking of assets and values of those investigated for 40 million reais (about 8 million dollars) was determined to cover and repair the damage caused to public property,” the Federal Police said today. it’s a statement.
According to the Brazilian press, one of the businessmen investigated is Geraldo Killer, a ruralista who financed part of the campaign for the failed re-election of Bolsonaro and that of Senator Marcos Pontes, the astronaut who was Bolsonaro’s Minister of Science and Technology.
Justice investigates the financing of the attempted coup
This phase of the investigation aims to find those who financed the camps in front of the Army headquarters in Brasilia and in the main cities of the country to request military intervention unaware of the defeat of Bolsonaro in the October 2022 elections against President Lula.
The ex-president Bolsonaro testified last month before the Federal Police for having published a video on social networks in which he called for the release of those detained for coup and denounced fraud in the elections.
Bolsonaro argued before the commissioner who questioned him that he posted the video by mistake on Facebook because he was under the influence of morphine, recovering from hospitalization for gastric problems during his three-month stay in the United States.
For the attempted coup, Bolsonaro’s former Justice Minister Anderson Torres was arrested and prosecuted, who at that time was the Secretary of Security of the Brasilia government and had ordered the Police not to repress the coup plotters who assaulted the court headquarters. Congress and the Planalto Palace.
Judge De Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), today ordered Torres to be placed under house arrest with the use of an electronic ankle bracelet in response to a request from the lawyers, who stressed that the former minister has not been able to see neither his children nor his mother, sick with cancer, since January 14, when he was arrested upon arrival in the country from the United States, Agencia Brasil reported.
Source: Ambito
