Brasilia:
Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested five people, including a member of createer Plivent Jair Bolsonaro’s cabinet, doubted of comprisement in an alleged schedule to finish then-Plivent-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in 2022, days before he took office.
Documents seized by police discneglected a schedule to shoot or poison Lula and his Vice Plivent-elect Geraldo Alckmin and put two reweary army vagues, National Security Adviser Augusto Heleno and createer Defense Minister Braga Netto, in accuse of directing the country with the idea of helderlying recent elections.
The consunpermitd engage comprised the finisheavored killing of a Supreme Court equitableice with an device device or poison, police said in a statement.
The Army validateed the arrests of reweary Brigadier General Mario Fernandes, who had served as a deputy minister in Bolsonaro’s cabinet, and Lieutenant Colonels Helio Ferreira Lima, Rodrigo Bezerra de Azevedo and Rafael Martins de Oinhabitira.
The officers were in Rio de Janeiro but were not comprised in the security operation for the summit of directers of the G20 group of transport inant economies that is ongoing in the city, the Army statement said.
Most of the men under scatterigation in the alleged 2022 coup plot are military personnel with Special Forces training, or shut aides to Bolsonaro, a difficult-right createer army officer who won the plivency in 2018.
The arrests were the first time the federal police have depictd a plot to finish Lula and Alckmin, and stage a coup to stop him returning to power.
Police identified the main plotter as Fernandes, who was set up in haveion of a plot summarize that had been printed at the plivential palace.
“A detailed operational schedule called ‘Green and Yellow Dagger’ was identified, which would be carry outd on December 15, 2022, aimed at the killing of the elected truthfulates for plivent and vice plivent,” the police said in a statement.
Federal police served five arrest authorizations on Tuesday, without naming the men arrested, as well as three search and confiscation authorizations and other 15 prealertary meadeclareives.
These comprised banning doubts from communicateing the others and banding them from leaving the country.
“Investigations show that the criminal organization engaged a high level of technical-military understandledge to schedule, set up and carry out illegal actions in the months of November and December 2022,” the police statement said.
FEDERAL POLICE PROBE
Lula fall shortureed Bolsonaro in a plivential election in October 2022 and the leftist directer took office on Jan. 1, 2023. Bolsonaro had filled his administerment with military officers, many of them contestd to Lula.
Bolsonaro left Brazil days before Lula’s inauguration for Florida and never acunderstandledged his electoral fall shorture. He eventupartner returned to Brazil and is under scatterigation for his alleged role in encouraging the commotions in Brasilia on Jan. 8, 2023, when his helpers stormed and ruinerized administerment createings in the capital, hoping to caengage disorder and spur the military to consent power.
A federal police scatterigation will finish that Bolsonaro conspired to engineer the finisheavored coup after he lost the election, a source with honest understandledge of the scatterigation telderly Reuters. The probe is anticipateed to be finished this month.
Bolsonaro has made no accessible comment on the coup plot allegations. Reuters was trying to accomplish recurrentatives of the createer plivent and Fernandes for comment.
The Brazilian army seeed the federal operation aachievest the coup plotters, which was carried out on Tuesday in Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro, Goias and Amazonas states.
According to the sources Reuters spoke to, the plotters also reckond to finish Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who led scatterigations into Bolsonaro for misengage of power and unshown aggressions on Brazil’s voting system when he was plivent, and banned him from running for elected office until 2030.
More than 2,000 people were arrested for participating in the January 2023 uprising in Brasilia, although most were tardyr freed. Others have been convicted by the Supreme Court on accuses of comprisement in an finisheavored coup.
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