Legislative commission on coup acts in Brazil in final phase

Brasilia, October 3.- The Parliamentary Investigation Commission (CPI in Spanish) on the coup acts of January 8 in Brazil enters the final stretch of its work, with the aim of presenting a report on October 17.

The intention of the speaker, Senator Eliziane Gama, is to show such a document on that date.

After that day, no new testimonies should be called and the deadline until the last day of operation of the ICC, November 20, should be used in evaluating the content.

This text is a summary of all the work carried out since May and may indicate those responsible for the invasion and depredation of the headquarters of the Three Powers (National Congress, Supreme Court and Presidential Palace), in Brasilia.

But, even approved within the ICC, possible requests for accusation depend on referral by Justice.

At least this week there are two affidavits. Tomorrow the businessman Argino Bedin, suspected of being a financier of the anti-democratic episodes, will be heard.

Bedin had the accounts blocked by decision of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Supreme Federal Court.

Also on Thursday, Second Lieutenant José Beroaldo Freitas Jr., of the Shock Battalion of the Military Police of the Federal District, will testify before the ICC.

The uniformed man acted in defense of the National Congress on January 8 and will testify at the request of Deputy Delegate Ramaje.

According to the newspaper O Tempo, there are still doubts about the schedule of the days following these two testimonies and the date on which Gama plans to deliver the report.

The expectation of attendance at the meeting, on October 5, of General Walter Braga Netto, who headed the Civil House and the Ministry of Defense in the Government of former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022), flutters.

This argument, however, was rescheduled more than once.

The same situation occurs with other names of interest to the rapporteur, such as Bolsonaro and Admiral Almir Garnier de Souza, former Navy commander who made the troops available for a possible coup d'état after the 2022 elections.

Likewise, Gama wanted to call Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, Bolsonaro's former aide, again, but due to an award-winning whistleblowing agreement, he cannot talk about investigative facts.

Such a confession is an agreement between the accused and the Public Ministry (accuser), and the former collaborates with the investigations.

That is, the informer renounces his right to silence and instead receives an advantage, which may vary according to the degree of his collaboration. (Text and photo: PL)