They accuse a Milei advisor of being part of a “criminal” organization linked to Jair Bolsonaro’s coup attempt in Brazil

External advisor to President Javier Milei and former head of his digital presidential campaign, Fernando Cerimedowas accused by a Brazilian Supreme Court judge of integrate a “criminal organization”, with “action squads and digital militias” in the coup attempt led by former President Jair Bolsonaro after the October 2022 elections, where he narrowly lost to Lula da Silva.

In a 135-page document, published this week, Judge Alexandre de Moraes accused more than 30 people, including Bolsonaro, of planning and executing a coup, for which he organized six working groups. One of them consisted of nine people, called “Nucleus of disinformation and attacks on the electoral system”, where he cited Cerimedo, an Argentine businessman very close to the Bolsonaro family, who also owns several companies in Argentina, including “La Derecha Diario”, Javier Milei’s reference medium.

In fact, one of the former president’s sons, Eduardo Bolsonaro, traveled to Argentina at the end of last year, accompanied by Cerimedo, to meet Milei.

The six working groups mentioned by the Brazilian Department of Justice developed a plan to ensure that Jair Bolsonaro remained in power illegally. With this aim they worked to “discredit the electoral process”, plan and execute “a coup d’état” and “the abolition of the democratic rule of law”, claimed the judge of the highest court to whom he had access Clarionwhich was resolved last Thursday the arrest of four people, dozens of raids and the seizure of Bolsonaro’s passport, so that he cannot leave the country.

The group in which the Brazilian Justice included the Argentine political marketing expert was responsible “Produce, disseminate and amplify false news regarding the 2022 presidential elections with the aim of encouraging (Bolsonaro’s) followers to remain in front of the barracks and facilities of the Armed Forces”, with “the aim” of creating “an environment conducive to the execution of a coup d’état “.

Judge De Moraes argued that “the core of the disinformation and attacks on the electoral system is established Anderson Torres, Angelo Martins Denicoli, Fernando Cerimedo“and six other people.

Anderson Torres He was Bolsonaro’s Justice Minister, was jailed for attacks against the democratic system and is now on probation, with an electronic anklet.

“Digital Militias”

The Supreme Court judge assured that this “disinformation nucleus” used “digital militias”. And he gave as an example of “such an illicit and anti-democratic strategy” a video by Cerimedo which was seen live on the Internet by hundreds of thousands of people, with “fraudulent news” about the Brazilian electoral system.

“As the police authority points out, Cerimedo used the same false arguments created by hackers, cited in the conversation held” between other members of these groups that destabilize democracy, said the judge of the Brazilian Supreme Court of Justice.

And he added that the existence of “a relationship” between the Brazilian army reservist “Angelo Martins Denicoli and Fernando Cerimedo, in the sense of spreading disinformation about the Brazilian electoral process”.

“A relationship between Fernando Cerimedo, Angelo Martins Denicoli and Eder Balbino is duly proven, in a dynamic division of tasks established for this purpose,” concluded the judge of Brazil’s highest court.

After the events that occurred in Brazil, Cerimedo oversaw part of the digital strategy of Milei’s presidential campaign, who questioned the results of PASO and the first electoral round, ensuring that “there were irregularities” that made him lose five points in those presidential elections, calling into question the functioning of the Argentine electoral system.

Cerimedo’s response

In dialogue with ClarionCerimedo ensured that Brazilian justice would accuse him “has already been archived” and who included him in the judicial brief for some videos he recorded in which he criticized the functioning of the Brazilian electoral system, despite there being “other videos in which I said not to go to the Capitol, not to cut off the roads. But they mention all those who supported Bolsonaro, there is terrible persecution”, because “Justice in Brazil is a disaster.”

“I am not accused of the attempted ‘coup’ and there was no attempt. My part has already been filed, but they imprisoned the president of Bolsonaro’s party and others. But They say that with the information I disclosed they incited the militants for the coup attempt, Cerimedo assured Clarion.

On social networks he expanded the concept and said that “they are persecuting the opponents and you celebrate it”, he told a user X (formerly Twitter).

“The worst thing is that they think it touches me. On the contrary, I am proud to have exposed the fraud of the Brazilian left, the same left that sent 30 of its salesmen and millions of dollars to Massa’s campaign and they lost. The judicial dictatorship of Brazil will fall, and never come back,” Cerimedo said, in response to user X.