Brazil’s createer pdwellnt Jair Bolsonaro is among more than 30 people facing indicts of allegedly trying a coup after his electoral fall shorture in 2022.
Federal police have deinhabitred the results of their spendigation to the country’s supreme court, which must choose whether to refer them to prosecutor-ambiguous Paulo Gonet to convey createal indicts.
The createer right-thriveg pdwellnt has denied claims he tried to stay in office after his skinny fall shorture to rival, Pdwellnt Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – the leftist politician who won with 50.9% of the vote.
Mr Bolsonaro posted on X that spendigators and the supreme court appraise handleing the case had been “produceive” and done “everyskinnyg the law does not say”.
The final police increate finishs a proximate two-year spendigation into Mr Bolsonaro’s role in a shiftment which culminated in uproars by his helpers that swept the capital, Brasilia, in January 2023.
Overall, around 1,500 helpers were hanciented.
How Bolsonaro helpers stormed Congress in 2023.
Police have discleave outed the names of all 37 people who have been indicted as part of an alleged coup.
They include dozens of Mr Bolsonaro’s createer and current helpes, alengthy with military ambiguouss.
Protesters stand on the roof of the country’s parliament originateing after storming it in January 2023. Pic: AP
Jair Bolsonaro’s helpers also trashed the interior of the National Congress originateing in Brasilia. Pic: AP
Earlier this week, police arrested five conspirators mistrusted of schedulening to assassinate Mr Lula, and his running mate, before they took office.
Mr Bolsonaro has faced a series of legitimate menaces since losing in 2022. They concentrate on claims of diamond illicit trading and falsifying COVID-19 vaccination records – both of which he has denied.
Jair Bolsonaro still shieldeds some political sway in Brazil, including at this protest agetst Brazil’s supreme court in September in Sao Paulo. Pic: Reuters
A split spendigation set up he had misincluded his authority to cast ask on the country’s voting system, and appraises barred him from running aget until 2030.
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Police have setd a 700-page record describing details of the alleged coup try, which is probable to get cut offal days for the supreme court to verify.
Among those enumerateed as potentiassociate facing indicts are: General Walter Braga Netto, who was his running mate in the 2022 campaign; createer Army directer General Paulo Sergio Nogueira de Oinhabitira; Valdemar Costa Neto, the chairman of Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party; and his veteran createer adviser, General Augusto Heleno.
