PF makes operation against bus financers for 8/1 – 05/09/2023 – Power

This Tuesday morning (5) the Federal Police are executing search and seizure warrants against suspects of financing and fomenting the attacks against the three Powers on January 8.

It is the 16th phase of the Lesa Pátria operation, which targets the financiers, executors, omissive authorities and intellectual authors of the coup attacks carried out by Bolsonarists.

53 warrants are fulfilled that target people who financed, mainly, the buses that transported the coup leaders to Brasília, where the buildings of the Planalto Palace, the National Congress and the STF (Federal Supreme Court) were invaded.

The measures authorized by the STF are complied with in São Paulo, Mato Grosso do Sul and Paraná, Santa Catarina, Tocantins, Ceará and Minas Gerais

According to the PF, the unavailability of goods, assets and values ​​of those investigated was also determined. “It is found that the damages caused to public property could reach the figure of R$ 40 million”, says the PF.

If the suspicions are confirmed, the targets may be classified as crimes of violent abolition of the Democratic State of Law, coup d’état, qualified damage, criminal association, incitement to crime, destruction and deterioration or destruction of specially protected property.

The PF is currently following four investigation fronts opened after the January 8 acts.

One of them targets possible intellectual authors, and it is this front that can reach Bolsonaro. Another intends to map the financiers and those responsible for the logistics of the camp and transporting Bolsonaristas to Brasília.

The third focus of the PF investigation is vandals. Investigators want to identify and individualize the conduct of each of those involved in the depredation of historic buildings in the federal capital.

The fourth line of investigation advances on authorities that were omitted during the 8th of January and that facilitated the action of the coup plotters.