Former adviser who said federal police forced him to expose Bolsonaro is arrested after appearing at a hearing

Jair Bolsonaro’s former aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, was arrested this Friday afternoon, a few hours after the press published audio recordings in which he attacks Federal Supreme Court (STF) judge Alexandre de Moraes and claims that he was coerced by the Federal Police will bring charges against the former president. The decree on preventive detention was signed by Alexandre de Moraes himself.

Sid was sentenced to arrest when he went to the STF to explain to the assistant judge in Moraes the context of the leaked audio recordings and to confirm whether he had been pressured by federal police inspectors to press charges against Bolsonaro. What exactly the military officer said at this hearing was not disclosed, but the STF limited itself to a statement in which it announced the new arrest of Bolsonaro’s former right-hand man for non-compliance with the rules of the cooperation agreement he entered into with the justice system at the end of last year and obstruction of justice.

Mauro Cid was imprisoned from May to November last year on charges of 16 different crimes allegedly committed on the orders of Bolsonaro and in favor of the former president, and was released after reaching an agreement in which he would tell everything he knew in exchange for probation -early release. The charges he has brought against Jair Bolsonaro have significantly worsened the legal situation of the former president, who was the target of two searches and arrests carried out by federal police at his home this year and was also accused last week by a corporation of falsifying his vaccination records, falsifying Covid vaccination results -19. 19 the vaccine will be able to reach the United States.

In audio recordings published on the night of Thursday, March 21, Sid tells his interlocutor, whose identity has not yet been established, that the PF forced him to bring charges against the former head of state and that the police, in fact, did not do this. I want to know the truth. I wanted him to confirm the already prepared version that compromises Bolsonaro. In another excerpt from the leaked audio recordings, Sid says that the Federal Supreme Court is ignoring the laws of Brazil, especially Alexandre de Moraes, who, according to the military, arrests whoever he wants, whenever he wants, without respecting rules and rights.

STF argues that by talking to another person about the agreement he entered into with the court and exchanging messages about it on a social network, Sid violated the cooperation agreement, one of the most important rules of which is absolute secrecy. The Federal Police and Alexandre de Moraes have not yet announced whether they will maintain or quash Sid’s joint testimony and the evidence he provided, but after the alleged coercion was reported, all charges he brought against Jair Bolsonaro and other suspects will be brought doubtful. .. a matter of lawyers, which could lead to a turn of events with unpredictable consequences in the various cases facing the former president.