On the evening of Saturday, February 10, Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court (STF) granted temporary freedom to Jair Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party (LP) President Valdemar da Costa Neto, who was arrested on Thursday during a federal police operation. The decision was made by Judge Alexandre de Moraes, responsible for the STF’s investigation into attacks on institutions and the democratic regime in which Bolsonaro and his allies are suspected.
Valdemar da Costa Neto was one of the targets of the Federal Police operation launched against military personnel, former ministers and advisers of Jair Bolsonaro, suspected of planning a coup in 2022 with the aim of keeping the then president in office after his defeat. presidential elections of the same year for Lula da Silva. There was only a search and arrest warrant against Valdemar, but when they searched his Brasília apartment, agents found an illegal weapon and a gold nugget of no known origin, as well as the president of the Liberal Party, the largest in the Brazilian Congress. , was arrested red-handed.
This Friday, while Waldemar and the three others arrested in the operation were present, as required by law, Alexandre de Moraes himself confirmed and supported the arrest of everyone, including the veteran politician, turning it from blatant to preventive, that is, with no end date. But this Saturday, the magistrate responded to the appeals of Waldemar’s lawyers and granted him freedom due to the age of the LP chairman, who is 74 years old, and also because the crimes for which he was arrested two days earlier did not involve any type of violence or violence. a threat to society.
Following the release of party president Bolsonaro, three more of the former president’s associates remain in prison, whose residence was also searched by federal officials. Felipe Martins, former presidential adviser on international affairs under Jair Bolsonaro, Colonel Marcelo Camara, who was an aide-de-camp, and Lieutenant Colonel Rafael Martins, a member of the army special forces, are all suspects, as is Waldemar, who will await the completion of the trial at large, to participate in the plan aimed to a democratic break and which, according to the Federal Police report, was not realized only because at the last moment the high command of the Armed Forces was divided and decided not to join the intention.
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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