According to the newspaper, meat should have been delivered to the indigenous people along with the basic food baskets sent between 2020 and 2022.| Photo: Joedson Alves/EFE

The Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, announced this Tuesday (16) that the Federal Police launched an investigation to investigate the purchase of 19 tons of frozen pork chops for indigenous communities in the Amazon that, according to a report by the newspaper Estado de S. Paulo, were never sold. handed out.

“Tons of missing steaks: the Federal Police launched a Police Inquiry to investigate the purchase and destination of the meat supposedly intended for indigenous people in the Amazon, acquired in past years,” he said in a post on twitter.

The opening of the inquiry takes place days after the newspaper report The state of Sao Paulo reveal that the government of then-president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) signed contracts for the purchase of meat that would be sent with basic food baskets to the indigenous communities of Vale do Javari, in Alto Solimões, between 2020 and 2022. in force in the current administration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).