Attempted coup in Brazil: 22 properties belonging to Bolsonaro businessmen accused of financing the attack were searched

Brazilian Federal Police this Thursday the 22nd they broke into the properties of businessmen accused of financing the mobilization of followers of former President Jair Bolsonaro to invade the headquarters of the three powers in Brasilia on January 8, with the aim of provoking a coup against the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Meanwhile, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has allowed former Justice Minister Anderson Torres, detained in the case, to go under house arrest with an electronic anklet on humanitarian grounds.

The raids were carried out in the states of São Paulo, Paraná and Mato Grosso do Sul at the request of the Federal Supreme Court and as part of Operation Lesa Patria, which has already prosecuted 550 of the 1,390 accused of participating in the assault carried out a week later the inauguration of Lula as president of Brazil, reproduces the agency telam.

“It was decided freezing of goods and values of the suspects for 40 million reais (about 8 million dollars) to cover and repair the damage caused to public assets”, reads a statement from the Federal Police.

According to the Brazilian press, one of the entrepreneurs under investigation is Geraldo Killer, a ruralist who financed part of the campaign for Bolsonaro’s non-reelection and that of Senator Marcos Pontes, the astronaut who was Bolsonaro’s minister of science and technology.

This phase of the investigation aims to find who financed the camps in front of the army barracks in Brasilia and in the main cities of the country to ask for military intervention, ignoring Bolsonaro’s defeat in the October 2022 elections against President Lula. .

Former President Bolsonaro testified before the Federal Police last month for having published a video on social networks in which he called for the release of coup detainees and denounced electoral fraud.

Bolsonaro argued before the commissioner who questioned him that he had posted the video by mistake on Facebook because he was under the influence of morphine, recovering from hospitalization for gastric problems during his three-month stay in the United States.

For the coup attempt, Bolsonaro’s former Justice Minister Anderson Torres was arrested and tried. Building.

Judge De Moraes, of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), today ordered house arrest for Torres with the use of an electronic anklet in response to a request from lawyers, who stressed that the former minister could not see neither his children nor his mother, who is suffering from cancer, since January 14, when he was arrested upon his arrival in the country from the United States, reported Agencia Brasil.