The Federal Police (FF) have charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with falsifying vaccination data during the Covid-19 pandemic. Bolsonaro was accused, according to the PF, which investigated the case for more than a year, of faking the receipt of a coronavirus vaccine in order to be able to enter the United States, from where he fled the day before the end of his term, in December 2022. ., fearing that he would be arrested as soon as the government of Lula da Silva came to power, defeating him in the presidential elections that year.
The former president has been charged with participating in a criminal organization and introducing false data into the government system. The investigation says it has evidence that people linked to Bolsonaro entered data into the Health Department’s system showing the then-president took a Covid-19 vaccine required in the US, even though he never actually took it. vaccine. something he campaigned against throughout his mandate, even declaring that vaccinated men would lose their masculinity and could turn into alligators, and in the case of women, they would grow beards.
In addition to this lawsuit in which he is now charged, Jair Bolsonaro, who has already been disqualified from running in elections until 2030, is also the subject of more than two dozen cases in the STF, the Federal Supreme Court, and the TSE, the Supreme Electoral Court, and in the Supreme Electoral Court of the TSE. Given the growing likelihood of being arrested as part of one of them, the former president publicly asked during a support event in Sao Paulo that Congress grant an amnesty that would free him from any possible conviction. Now the prosecutor’s office will have to say whether it agrees with the accusation, and if it agrees, then transfer the case to the court, which will be responsible for whether to make the former head of state accused. .
In addition to Bolsonaro, federal police have charged other people involved in falsifying the former president’s vaccination records. Among them is Lt. Col. Mauro Cid, a former presidential aide-de-camp who was jailed for several months last year on charges of helping his former boss commit other crimes and who was released at the end of 2023 after cooperating with justice by providing valuable information. , including against Bolsonaro, in exchange for reduced sentences in the future.
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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