The former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023) made a transfer of 800,000 reais ($160,000) to the United States before traveling there at the end of December 2022, where I would expect the evolution of an attempted coup against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvaaccording to an investigation by the Federal Police (PF) released today by the local press
Shortly after losing the elections, The former far-right president traveled to Florida and transferred resources to banks abroad to await the evolution of the actions against Lulaaccording to investigation documents obtained by the O Globo network.
According to the PF, those investigated “they had the expectation that there was still the possibility of carrying out the coup d’état” and they were aware of the crimes committed.
“Some of those investigated fled the country, withdrawing practically all of their resources invested in national financial institutions, transferring them to the United States to protect themselves from possible criminal proceedings initiated to investigate illicit acts,” the document states.
“It is evident that the then president, Jair Bolsonaro, at the end of his mandate, transferred all his assets and financial resources, illicit and legal, in order to ensure his permanence abroad, possibly awaiting the outcome of the attempted coup d’état. that was ongoing,” the force says.
Last week, Brazilian police launched an operation against Bolsonaro and his immediate entourage to investigate the strategy to carry out a coup d’état that would prevent Lula from assuming power on January 1, 2023.
The PF highlights that given the non-consummation of the coup, various investigators “started to leave the country with the most varied excuses (vacation or rest).”
This is the case of Bolsonaro, who spent three months in the United States, or of former Minister of Justice Anderson Torres, who was also in that country on January 8, when the coup plots took place in Brasilia, despite the fact that he was in that country. moment the Secretary of Security of the Government of the Federal District.
Torres quickly returned from the United States by court order and was arrested upon arriving in Brasilia; He spent four months in jail for a crime of omission and is currently on parole.
As part of an operation last week, Justice determined that Bolsonaro hand over his passport, upon detecting that there was a risk of flight abroad; The far-right leader handed in his travel document a few hours later.
Source: Ambito
