Anderson Torres, former Minister of Justice of the former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonarowas arrested this Saturday at the Brasilia airport under investigation for alleged “omission and collusion” with the storming of Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace on January 8, local media reported.
Torres, who He served as security secretary from the capital on the day thousands of Bolsonaro supporters violently seized the seat of public power, landed in the Brazilian capital from the United States this Saturday morning to appear before justice.
The former official’s situation has become even more complicated in the last few hours when, during a search at his home, the Police Headquarters found the draft of a presidential decree to intervene in the Superior Electoral Court and “correct” the result of the presidential elections , which Bolsonaro lost to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with a difference of 1.8 percentage points.
The former minister was detained by authorities at Brasilia International Airport upon disembarking from You love me, as confirmed by their lawyers to the press. The plane on which he was traveling arrived around 7:30 local time at the Brasilia airport where Torres was awaited by the Federal Police.
The arrest warrant against the former official was issued Wednesday by Alexandre de Moraes, magistrate of the Supreme Court, for “alleged omission”, and confirmed in full by the members of the highest court of justice.
Having heard the decision of the magistrate, the former minister announced that he would return to his homeland to entrust himself to justice and prove his innocence, since he claims there was a contingency plan in case violent acts occurred in the Bolsonarist marches.
Torres took office as Secretary of Public Security of Brasilia on January 2 and went on vacation to the United States five days later, so he was not in the country at the time of the attacks by far-right radicals on the headquarters of the three government branches.
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