Sales of official gifts involving Bolsonaro surroundings may motivate CPI

Investigation

PF operation carried out on Friday (11) reheated the case and the government base in the Chamber is already mobilizing

The Federal Police (PF) operation that had former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) as its target may have, in addition to ongoing investigations, political consequences, such as a CPI in the Chamber.

The government base in the House is already mobilizing to revive the investigation of the alleged illegal sale of jewelry received as a gift during official trips by the former president.

The idea gained strength after the operation, which affected Mauro Cid, a former assistant to the former president, and his father. In addition to them, Bolsonaro’s former lawyer Frederick Wassef was also targeted by the PF in the operation. He would have bought back a watch sold by Cid illegally, according to the PF.

Because of the investigations, Bolsonaro had his banking and tax secrecy breached, requested by the PF.

The collection of signatures for the establishment of the CPI began in mid-April, when the case of jewelry received by former First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro of Saudi Arabia came to light. But she stayed on the sidelines with the negotiations for the installation of the CPMI on the 8th of January.

According to the PF, the suspects are investigated for using the structure of the Brazilian State to divert goods of high patrimonial value, given as a gift by foreign authorities on official missions to representatives of the Brazilian State, through the sale of these items in countries abroad.

The investigation has so far pointed out that the amounts obtained from these illegal sales have been converted into cash and entered into the personal assets of those investigated.

The PF is investigating whether Mauro Cid would have sold and then repurchased a Rolex watch valued at US$68,000 (more than R$300,000 at the current exchange rate).

He would have sold the first items on June 13, 2022. According to the operation, he took gifts received by the Brazilian State to the United States with the intention of selling them.

Cid would have transported the objects on the same presidential plane in which Jair Bolsonaro traveled to Orlando, on December 30 last year, on the eve of the end of his term.

*With information from CNN Brazil

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