TRE-RJ archives electoral counting against Flávio Bolsonaro – 05/23/2023 – Power

The Regional Electoral Court of Rio de Janeiro determined this Tuesday (23) the shelving of an inquiry against Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) to investigate alleged practice of ideological falsehood in the candidacy registration in 2014.

The end of the investigation had already been defended by the Federal Police and the Electoral Public Ministry, but remained open due to decisions by Judge Flávio Itabaiana, from the 204th electoral zone, and the 2nd Chamber of Coordination and Review of the Federal Public Ministry.

The TRE-RJ judges understood that the investigation deadline exceeded the reasonable deadline for completion, constituting an illegal embarrassment to the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro.

According to the court, parameters defined by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights were considered to verify the moderate time for carrying out the investigation.

The electoral inquiry was opened in February 2018 after the criminal complaint of lawyer Eliezer Gomes da Silva based on a report by Sheet of January of that year. The newspaper pointed out the patrimonial evolution of Jair Bolsonaro and his political sons Carlos (councillor), Eduardo (federal deputy) and Flávio (at the time, state deputy).

Flávio Bolsonaro was investigated for the practice of electoral falsehood by assigning different values ​​to the same property in the declarations of assets delivered to the Electoral Court in the 2014 and 2016 elections.

In 2014, when he ran for a seat in the Assembly of Rio, he attributed the value of BRL 565,000 to a penthouse in Laranjeiras. Two years later, it appeared in his declaration of assets worth R$423,000.

Transaction documents show that the total value of the property is R$ 1.7 million, acquired by Flávio and his wife, Fernanda, who each own half of the property. They financed the purchase of the penthouse.

The amount presented in 2014 refers to the total paid by the couple until December 2013, the last fiscal year before the election year. Already in 2016, Flávio included in his electoral declaration only his half paid in installments for the property until the end of 2015.

In his final report, delegate Erick Blatt, of the Federal Police, declared that he had not seen any signs of electoral crime.

Electoral prosecutor Alexandre Themistocles even asked for the support of the Gaecc (Special Action Group to Combat Corruption), a group that was investigating the senator for the practice of “cracking” in his former office in the Legislative Assembly, to analyze the case. Weeks later, he endorsed the filing. Judge Itabaiana submitted the filing to the MPF Chamber.

In August 2020, the MPF’s 2nd Criminal Review Chamber disagreed with the position of the MP-RJ, as they considered that there was a lack of steps to rule out the existence of the offense.