Brazil’s Federal Police are conducting an operation against those accused of illegal espionage under the government of Jair Bolsonaro

This Thursday, the Brazilian Federal Police (PF) launched an operation in five states of the country against individuals accused of carrying out illegal espionage during the government of former President Jair Bolsonaro, with the aim of supporting him or denigrating opponents, authorities and journalists. Five preventive arrest warrants and seven search and arrest warrants are currently being served, authorized by Federal Supreme Court (STF) judge Alexandre de Moraes.

Among the targets of this Thursday’s action are former advisers to the President of the Republic, suspected of participating in the so-called “Office of Hate”, a secret structure created by one of Jair Bolsonaro’s sons, adviser Carlos Bolsonaro, inside the presidential palace itself. . The government in Brasilia created and disseminated on social networks false news against politicians who at the time opposed the executive power. Other targets are agents of ABIN, the Brazilian Intelligence Agency, Brazil’s “secret” agency, accused of using the agency’s structure to illegally spy on thousands of people when Bolsonaro was president, using high-tech equipment secretly purchased from Israel. .

According to the PF, these agents managed to penetrate the cell phones, computers and other equipment of parliamentarians who opposed Bolsonaro, judges of various levels and many journalists, as well as tens of thousands of other people, whose location was tracked and their computer files were destroyed. However, according to the Federal Police, in the presidential palace, advisers led by Carlos Bolsonaro, who last January was the subject of another stage of investigation and whose cell phones and laptops were confiscated, carried out continuous attacks on those who opposed the policies of his father’s government against him, even making personal attacks and spreading false accusations via the Internet, as they did, the PF points out, against senators who participated in the commission of inquiry that investigated the omissions and crimes committed by Jair Bolsonaro during the Covid-19 pandemic that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Brazil.