Brazilian police file charges against Bolsonaro for Covid certificate fraud

The Federal Police of Brazil filed a complaint against the former president JairBolsonaro for fraud in the vaccination certificate against covid-19, local media reported this Tuesday. Authorities see evidence of association to commit a crime and use of false data in the case that investigates an illicit network in which military personnel, advisors, politicians and doctors allegedly participated to falsify vaccination cards and which allegedly benefited Bolsonaro and his closest entourage.

According to the survey, There was a conspiracy to falsify anti-covid vaccination cards with the aim that its beneficiaries could circumvent health restrictions in third countries during the pandemic.

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The Police also highlighted in their final report to the former aide-de-camp BolsonaroLieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, and the federal deputy Gutemberg Reisof the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) party.

Now it will be the Public Prosecutor’s Office that will analyze the Police’s conclusions and decide whether or not to file a formal complaint with the Court against Bolsonarowhich is investigated in other processes, including the attempted coup d’état after the 2022 electionsthat the current ruler won, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Fabio Wajngartenspokesman and one of the far-right leader’s lawyers, criticized on his social networks “the leak” of the Federal Police opinion to the media.

“It is regrettable that the authorities use the press to communicate a formal actor that logically should have technical and procedural coverage and not media and partial coverage”, he said.

In May 2023, the Police searched Bolsonaro’s house in Brasília in connection with this case and later arrested six suspects, including Mauro Cid, two of his bodyguards and a soldier who served as an advisor to the former head of state.

During the process, Authorities detected “the existence of signs of false data being inserted about the Covid-19 vaccine” in relation to the then Brazilian presidentwho governed between 2019 and 2022.

In official records it was stated that Bolsonarowho always disdained the impact covid and raised doubts about the effectiveness of vaccines, He received two doses at an outpatient clinic, but there is no evidence that he was there on the scheduled days.

These records were later deleted on the grounds that it was an “error”. The same thing happened, on different dates with the former president’s daughter, Laura, 13 years old.

His allegedly false vaccination data was uploaded and then deleted, in theory, “to eliminate traces” of possible “criminal behavior”, according to the Police.

O investigation highlights that the Former leaderhad “full knowledge” of the “fraudulent insertion of vaccination data”, remaining “inert” in the face of such a crime.

Bolsonaro He traveled in December 2022, on the eve of the inauguration of the Lulawhich was carried out on January 1, 2023, for the United States, where at that time it was mandatory to present an anti-covid vaccination certificate, a measure that was in force until May of last year.

The former president spent three months in the United States before returning to Brazil and since then his problems with justice have multiplied.

Source: Elcomercio

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