The Minister of the Federal Supreme Court, Dias Toffoli.| Photo: Fabio Rodrigues Pozzebom/Agencia Brasil

The Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Dias Toffoli filed two preliminary investigations opened from the Covid CPI against former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL). Toffoli accepted the manifestation of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), which considered that “minimum evidence” was not presented for the opening of investigations against Bolsonaro and his allies, reported the newspaper O Globo.

In one of the actions, the commission accused the former president of “infringing a preventive health measure”, for not wearing a mask. In the other, Bolsonaro was accused of the alleged crime of “causing an epidemic”, along with the ministers of Defense, Walter Braga Netto; of Health, Eduardo Pazuello; and Health, Marcelo Queiroga, among other allies.

“If, from the narrated facts and their eventual evidence, presented, now, to the authority who is responsible for investigating and representing by opening an inquiry before this Supreme Court, the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic did not visualize the minimum substrate for such measures, it must be accepted its opinion for the archiving”, said Toffoli in the decision.