Mauro Cid’s lawyer drops the case on vaccine fraud – 05/10/2023 – Power

Lawyer Rodrigo Roca announced his departure from the defense of Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, former assistant and right-hand man of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL).

In a statement sent to the press on Wednesday night (10), Roca said he had taken the decision for professional reasons and family impediments on his part.

Cid was arrested last Wednesday (3) on suspicion of tampering with the vaccination records of the former president and family members.

An investigation by the Federal Police identified attempts to insert false Covid-19 vaccination data into the Ministry of Health system, between November 2021 and December 2022.

On behalf of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF (Federal Supreme Court), the Federal Police appointed Mauro Cid as the main organizer of the scheme.

According to a report published in Sheet last Thursday (4), Bolsonaro’s defense relies on Cid’s admission of guilt in the scheme.

Allies of the former representative estimate that he will have no alternative but to acknowledge having tampered with immunization certificates. At the same time, Bolsonaro’s lawyers are seeking to disassociate him from the episode.

Roca is known to be close to Bolsonaro’s family and has already advocated for Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) in the case that became known as “rachadinhas”.