Moraes authorizes Bolsonaro’s testimony in investigation into Senator Marcos do Val – 06/16/2023 – Power

Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF (Federal Supreme Court), authorized the Federal Police to take testimony from former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in the context of investigations aimed at Senator Marcos do Val (Podemos-ES).

The senator was searched and apprehended on Thursday (15).

The operation against Do Val was authorized by Moraes. The minister also ordered the blocking of the senator’s social networks.

Moraes determined the opening of an investigation against the senator in February to investigate suspected crimes of false testimony, slanderous denunciation and coercion.

The investigation against Do Val was opened after he made a live broadcast on social networks in which he said that Veja magazine would publish a report showing that Bolsonaro tried to coerce him to “take a coup d’état together with him”.

Hours later, the senator withdrew from the direct accusation and said that Bolsonaro “only heard” the plan of former federal deputy Daniel Silveira and said he would think about it.

Moraes, when asking for the investigation, said that Do Val, when heard as a witness by the Federal Police regarding the case, presented “a fourth version of the facts disclosed by him, all antagonistic to each other, so that the pertinence and need for diligence is verified for your complete clarification”.