A report prepared by the Brazilian Federal Police sent to the Supreme Court concluded on Wednesday that the conduct of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro does not present “criminal elements” in the context of the case investigating his possible interference in the police institution.
Brazil's former Minister of Justice and Public Security and former judge Sergio Moro resigned in April 2020 after recriminating the president for possible “political interference” in the Federal Police (PF), where the president planned to appoint a like-minded person.
“The president told me that he wanted to place a like-minded person who could pass him information, intelligence reports. The role of the PF is not to provide that kind of information,” Moro warned at the time.
Hours after the dismissal of PF director Maurício Valeixo was published, Moro confirmed in a public appearance his disagreement with this decision, which he had personally transferred to Bolsonaro during a private meeting.
Moro also clarified, contrary to what appeared in the official gazette, that he did not sign the dismissal of the chief of police, just as it was not Valeixo who made his position available to Bolsonaro, as the president suggested in a Twitter message highlighting precisely this alleged request.
The report prepared this Wednesday by the Federal Police is part of the investigation opened in 2020 by the Supreme Court, which responded to a request from the Attorney General's Office (PGR) following these allegations of interference by Moro, as reported by the newspaper 'O Globo'.
“We conclude that, within the limits of the investigation outlined by the minister-rapporteurs in the criminal sphere, there are no minimum evidence in the records of the existence of criminal materiality attributed to the President of the Republic, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, as well as Sergio Fernando Moro”, as stated in the document, as reported by several Brazilian media outlets.
According to the then Supreme Justice Celso de Mello, Bolsonaro tried to politically interfere in cases involving the Federal Police involving some of his relatives. After denying the charges before the Tribunal, in January, when the case was close to expiry, Judge Alexandre de Moraes extended the investigation for another three months.
(With information from Europa Press)
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