Bolsonaro denies having ordered his Covid vaccination certificate to be falsified

The defense of JairBolsonaroagainst whom the police filed a complaint this Tuesday for alleged fraud in the vaccination certificate against COVID-19claimed that the former Brazilian president did not need the document to travel abroad and that, therefore, he did not order anyone to forge it.

If anyone has included false information on their or their family’s vaccination certificate, “He did so on his own initiative and without authorization from the former president“, says a statement released by the far-right leader’s lawyers in Brazil.

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The former presidentHe never ordered or requested that any manifestly illicit conduct be adopted in his name, therefore there is no evidence in the process of the former president’s conduct to the contrary, especially since there was no need for it.“, adds the statement.

The note states that it is public and known worldwide that Bolsonaro, due to personal convictions, was never immunized against the virus. covid and that when he traveled to U.SOn December 30, 2022, he did so as head of state of Brazil, meaning he did not need a vaccination certificate to enter the North American country.

The defense released the statement after the Federal police accuse the far-right leader of “criminal association” it’s from “use of false data in official records” for allegedly requesting a fake vaccination certificate.

According to the police, JairBolsonaro took advantage of a criminal network that forged vaccination cards so that beneficiaries could skip the health restrictions in Brazil and in third countries during the pandemic.

The ex-governor’s former aide-de-camp, lieutenant colonel Mauro Cidwho agreed to collaborate with the investigations in exchange for legal benefits, stated that Bolsonaro “He gave the order”to make a vaccination certificate for him and another for his daughter Lauratoday 13 years old.

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Cid revealed at the police station that he handed over “personally”the irregular certificates to the then president.

The Police claim to have evidence that the false certificates were issued at the end of December 2022, days before Bolsonaro traveled to the United States, on the eve of the current president’s inauguration. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

At the time, it was mandatory to present a certificate to enter the United States, but the defense claims that the president traveled with a diplomatic passport, which exempted him from this requirement.

“Therefore, when filing a complaint, the police authority seems hasty, at least in relation to the former president, since there is no well-founded and objective suspicion of his participation in the authorship of the crimes being investigated.“, states the defense note.

The lawyers add that, as the former president has always said he is against the vaccine, it makes no sense for him to carry a false certificate because, in this case, “would be immediately recognized and publicly disqualified for the position he has always presented on the subject”.

“If, for the reasons given, neither the former president nor his daughter needed a certificate to travel, it is necessary to ask what would be a reasonable reason for them to risk a clandestine and criminal plan.“, claims the defense.

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The investigation into the fake certificate is one of three that the Federal Police are conducting against the former president.

In another, he is suspected of having illegally appropriated, during his term of office, high-value gifts that he received on several trips abroad and which should have been part of the State’s collection.

But the most serious is the one that places him at the center of the coup plot that sought to annul Lula’s electoral victory to remain in power.

Source: Elcomercio

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