Ramagem missed the confidentiality interview, says Abin – 01/27/2024 – Power

The former general director of Abin (Brazilian Intelligence Agency) Alexandre Ramagem did not complete the standard exit checklist, as well as missing the interview in which the confidentiality agreement regarding his activity in the position would be signed, indicates a partial result of an internal investigation by the organ.

The agency began the investigation on Thursday (25), after the news came to light that the Federal Police found a computer, a cell phone and possibly physical encryption pendrives owned by Abin at the former director’s addresses.

Ramagem headed Abin during the administration of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and left the position on March 30, 2022 to contest that year’s elections. He is currently a federal deputy for the PL of Rio de Janeiro.

According to information obtained by Sheetevery employee of the intelligence agency who leaves his role must go through an asset checklist obtaining a formal declaration from all sectors that he returned the equipment he was perhaps using.

In addition, an interview is carried out in which the server undertakes to maintain the confidentiality of acts related to their activity at Abin.

According to the partial results of the agency’s investigation, Ramagem’s access to the intelligence agency’s internal system was cut off on the day of his dismissal. The fixed equipment in his workroom was all returned.

Abin is carrying out a search of the internal organs to find out where the computer, cell phone and flash drives found with Ramagem came from.

Although he was called for the interview in which he was supposed to sign the confidentiality agreement, the former director did not attend, according to the internal investigation.

A Sheet He tried to contact Ramagem’s office this Saturday (27), but received no response.

In an interview with GloboNews on Thursday, the former director of Abin denied any use or relationship with the spying tool targeted by the investigation and stated that he had not returned the agency’s equipment because he thought he had authorization to keep them.

“We never had the use, execution, management or password of these systems,” he said, referring to him and his direct team.

Regarding the equipment, he stated that all of them are obsolete and unused. “I could return it, but they were there, I didn’t know. I thought they were from the old Federal Police, which I have the right to custody, to caution. It was an old telephone, an old computer, that had been there for over years, without coming into contact with me. any Abin technology and without having contact with the company’s system.”

Ramagem is at the center of the investigation into Abin’s use, from 2019 to 2021, of the Israeli software FirstMile. The Federal Police’s suspicion is that the tool was used by the Bolsonaro administration to illegally spy on political opponents.

Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF (Supreme Federal Court), has already authorized two search and seizure operations against targets of the investigation, one in October last year and the other on Thursday, on which occasion in Ramagem the office was held in the Chamber of Deputies and his address in Rio searched.

The operations also heightened tensions between the PF and Abin leadership. In the request made to Moraes to carry out the latest operation, the PF states that the current management entered into a “collusion” to hinder investigations and protect employees involved in the irregular use of the tool.

Federal Police delegate Luiz Fernando Corrêa heads the intelligence body. Behind the scenes, he occupies the opposite group to the director general of the Federal Police, Andrei Rodrigues.

In both operations, the PF requested and Moraes authorized searches at Abin’s headquarters, in Brasília.

The intelligence agency denies any type of collusion, saying it has always collaborated and responded to all requests made by the PF since the investigation was launched in March.