Illegal spying of Bolsonaro clan. In Brazil, raids were conducted on the houses of former President in Rio de Janeiro.

This Monday, Brazilian Federal Police searched the home and office of Rio de Janeiro councilor Carlos Bolsonaro, one of the sons of former President Jair Bolsonaro, as part of an investigation into illegal spying during his father’s term (2019-2022). Reported the official source.

The action is a continuation of the operation deployed last Thursday to dismantle an alleged plot in which members of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN) and the Federal Police irregularly spied on Bolsonaro’s opponents and tried to favor their children. of.

According to a note from the corporation, agents try to “pursue the political core” of this illegal organization, “identifying the main recipients and beneficiaries of information illegally produced by Abin through covert operations”.

Rio’s Municipal Chamber confirmed that police searched Carlos Bolsonaro’s office looking for evidence. They also raided the mayor’s home in Rio and seized documents and computers.

A strange “leak”

A search warrant was also taken at the home of the Bolsonaro family in Angra dos Reis, on the banks of Rio, where the former president had broadcast live on social networks the day before in the company of his three children: senator Flavio, deputy Eduardo and Carlos himself.

Bolsonaro’s lawyer and spokesman, Fabio Wagengarten, said that the former president and his children were not at Angra’s home at the time of the search because they had gone fishing at 5:00 a.m. The appropriate “fishing trip” is questionable: It is likely that the clan’s contacts living in state bodies warned them that they would be raided and, as a result, they all escaped in time to avoid appearing in official photographs.

Brazilian authorities suspect that Carlos Bolsonaro was one of the recipients of information illegally obtained by Abin. The 41-year-old councilor is also being investigated for misuse of public resources through the appointment of ghost consultants.

This Monday, federal police issued nine search warrants in the cities of Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro (5), Brasília, Formosa and Salvador.

The case is ongoing in the Supreme Court and directly targets a key Bolsonaro ally and co-religionist, federal deputy Alexandre Ramgem, who was head of Abin during the far-right leader’s administration.

Bolsonaro’s three children in the headlines

Investigators have “collected evidence of the existence of a criminal organization that operated within Abin with the intention of illegally spying on people and officials through intrusions into computers and mobile phones without judicial authorization.”

According to the Supreme Court, the conspiracy sought to benefit at least some of the former head of state’s youngest son, Renan Bolsonaro, and was investigated for influence peddling over suspicions that he had taken advantage of his influence when his father was in power. Had supported a business group.,

Furthermore, the supreme judicial instance asked Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in an official note to “prepare a report to help his defence” in the case in which he responded to the diversion of resources from the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro. Was. ,

Those investigated may be prosecuted for various crimes, such as “invading another’s computer device”, “criminal organization”. Or, according to the police, “interception of communications without judicial authorization”.

“In this new phase, the Federal Police seeks to advance into the political core by identifying the main recipients and beneficiaries of illegally produced information in the Abin region through covert operations,” the police statement said.

Investigators suspect that Ebin used Israeli surveillance software called FirstMile, which tracks smartphone geolocation data, to spy on thousands of people during Bolsonaro’s presidency. ,The investigated people may be held responsible (…) for the crimes of invasion of another’s computer device, criminal organization and interception of telephone, computer or telematic communications without judicial authorization or for purposes not authorized by law. Could.Police added.

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Among the alleged spies, in addition to Moraes, would be Supreme Court judge Gilmer Mendes, former president of the Chamber of Deputies Rodrigo Maia and the former governor of Serra state Camilo Santana, now education minister under President Luiz Inácio Lula. Da Silva.

J on Sunday’s live showAir Bolsonaro, along with his children, criticized the way the federal police handled this and other cases still ongoing, and denied the existence of “parallel prisons” during his government.

The former president, a retired army captain and nostalgic for the times of the dictatorship, faces several legal cases against him, including a case related to the coup on January 8, 2023, when thousands of his supporters invaded and killed three powers. Headquarters destroyed. To overthrow the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.