Bolsonaro ally accused of forging arrest warrant for Supreme Court judge

The Brazilian Federal Police (FF) accused federal deputy Carla Zambelli of the Liberal Party (PL), a radical ally of former President Jair Bolsonaro, of being responsible for intruding on the website of the CNJ, the National Council of Justice, the body that oversees courts of all levels in Brazil, and ordered forging an arrest warrant against Judge Alexandre de Moraes, who is pursuing cases against himself and the former President in the STF, the Federal Supreme Court. In addition to the parliamentarian, the PF also accused the hacker Walter Delgatti Neto, the author of the violation of the official website of justice.

Delgatti admitted to federal police that he hacked the CNJ website and had access to confidential files and documents, some of which he sent to Zambelli, all of which, he accused, was on the orders of a federal deputy. In a confession containing many details, the hacker also stated that Carla Zambelli asked him to invade the electronic system of ballot boxes, where Brazilians would vote to elect the President of the Republic in October 2022. senators, deputies of the federal and regional governments and state governors, in order to discredit electoral fairness and give Jair Bolsonaro an excuse to annul these elections and remain in power indefinitely.

However, according to Delgatti’s testimony, he refused, telling the parliamentarian that it was impossible to manipulate electronic voting machines and falsify the results. So, the hacker added, Carla Zambelli asked him to infiltrate the CNJ website and, the hacker emphasized, forge an arrest warrant for the Supreme Court judge who was leading cases against her, Bolsonaro and several allies, which he did. consolation prize for the parliamentarian.

Zambelli denies all the charges, repeating the same argument used by Bolsonaro and his allies that he is suffering from political persecution and that it is all part of a left-wing machination with the complicity of the judiciary to prevent the former president, who has already been disqualified from running in elections. until 2030, back to the office. The PF found Carla Zambelli’s CNJ files, which she could not have accessed under any circumstances, as well as audio recordings between her and Delgatti agreeing on payments, but the deputy claims that these payments were compensation to Delgatti for computer services he provided her, namely, reframing your social networks.

The lawmaker, the top vote-getter in Sao Paulo state, also faces several more legal challenges. One of them refers to an episode that occurred just before the 2022 elections, when she argued with a black left-wing journalist in a restaurant in the elegant Jardins district of São Paulo, and then ran after him through the streets with a pistol in her hand, tried to hit him, but stopped only when one of his guards fired and stopped the journalist, who was then grabbed on the ground and beaten.