The Mixed Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPMI, in Portuguese) investigating the January 8 criminal acts will be concluded this week. The report will be presented by Senator Eliziane Gama (PSD, Maranhão state) on Tuesday (17) and voted on by her colleagues on Wednesday (18).
The opposition may announce its vote separately, an alternative vote to that of the rapporteur. However, this group’s position will only be accepted if Eliziane’s vote is rejected, which won’t probably happen. The CPMI’s president, Arthur Maia (Union Brazil, Bahia state) announced that there will probably be a request for more time to study the matter, which will end at 9 p.m. on Wednesday (18). On this date, parliamentarians will decide on the document.
The expectation is that the report will suggest indicting authorities and leaders who supported former President Jair Bolsonaro (Liberal Party) in the attack on the country's democratic institutions, such as the electoral process. The attacks were considered crucial elements to build fertile ground for the January 8 coup attempt. There must also be a suggestion of indicting those who omitted or acted to favor the Bolsonarist acts that culminated in the invasion and depredation of the Three Powers buildings, in Brasília, Brazil’s capital city.
Remember the most important moments of the January 8 CPMI
Anderson Torres contradicts information from the Brazilian Intelligence Agency
The former Secretary of Public Security of the Federal District and former Bolsonaro’s Minister of Justice, Anderson Torres, contradicted the former deputy director of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin, in Portuguese), Saulo Moura da Cunha, in a statement to the CPMI on August 8.
Torres said he was not informed about the risk of a coup attempt led by Bolsonaro supporters. However, on August 1, Cunha confirmed he did warn the responsible authorities of the seriousness of the January 8 acts through a WhatsApp message to a group of 48 public agencies, including that of Torres, who was on a trip to the US on that day.
Army General Augusto Heleno loses his mind
Bolsonaro’s former minister of the Institutional Security Cabinet (GSI, in Portuguese), General Augusto Heleno, was elated by the commission's rapporteur on September 26. Heleno showed a lack of control when asked by Senator Eliziane Gama if he considered there was fraud in the 2022 presidential elections. Heleno denied it, saying that “There is already a new president of the Republic”, adding that he could not say there was fraud in the elections, one of Bolsonaro's claims. Then, Eliziane stated that Heleno had "changed his mind”. Bolsonaro's former minister got angry and said: “She says things she thinks are [sic] in my head. F*ck, I’m supposed to be f*ucking mad, right?! F*ck!".
Hacker Walter Delgatti’s revelations
In his statement to the CPMI, on August 17, hacker Walter Delgatti Neto stated that former Defense Minister Paulo Sérgio Nogueira de Oliveira facilitated his access to the ministry's headquarters in Brasília and to employees who were experts in information technology to try to create a false source code for electronic voting machines in order to fraud the 2022 presidential elections.
Walter Delgatti Neto was supposedly introduced to Paulo Sérgio Nogueira by Jair Bolsonaro himself after a meeting at Alvorada Palace on August 10 last year. At the time and according to the hacker, the following people attended the meeting: the then President Jair Bolsonaro, federal deputy Carla Zambelli (Liberal Party, São Paulo state), Bolsonaro’s former aide Mauro Cid and presidential advisor Marcelo Câmara.
Hacker Walter Delgatti Netto, who called former judge a "hard-core criminal" during the CPMI. / Marcos Oliveira / Agência Senado
“He [Bolsonaro] told me that I would be saving Brazil. This conversation evolved and reached the technical part. They said I would be protected and I would receive a pardon from the president. With the precautionary measures prohibiting me from accessing the internet, this pardon was offered”, said Delgatti.
Delgatti also stated that, through the mediation of Carla Zambelli, Jair Bolsonaro asked him to tap Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
Hacker Walter Delgatti calls former judge Sério Moro a “criminal”
Delgatti's declaration, one of the most emblematic of the CPMI, was also marked by an exchange of barbs with Senator Sergio Moro (Union Brazil, Paraná state). The hacker called the parliamentarian a "hard-core criminal" after the former judge from the city of Curitiba pointed to legal proceedings against Delgatti.
The hacker was responsible for leaking messages exchanged by members of Operation Car Wash, such as those of the then prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol and Sergio Moro. The messages revealed joint collaboration between the prosecutors and Moro in cases involving then-former President Lula (Workers’ Party). The content played a crucial role in the trials conducted by Brazil’s Supreme Court, which resulted in the declaration of Moro's suspicion of Lula's convictions.
Report of a Military Police officer attacked by Bolsonaro supporters
During her statement on September 12, Marcela da Silva Morais Pinno reported that she was attacked with iron bars and stones by Bolsonaro supporters during the coup act on January 8 in Brasília.
Marcela da Silva Morais Pinno was one of the Police officers atacked during the January 8 coup attempt in Brasília. / Edilson Rodrigues/Agência Senado
“After I was pushed from three meters high and was on the ground, while some people kicked me and attacked me with an iron bar heating my head, others tried to take my gun. Around six men attacked me. If it weren’t for my coworkers, I certainly wouldn’t be here,” the police officer said.
Former minister of the Institutional Security Office blames the Federal District Police
In his statement to the CPMI, on August 31, the former chief minister of the Institutional Security Office (GSI, in Portuguese) Marco Edson Gonçalves Dias, also known as G. Dias, stated that the blockade by the Federal District Military Police at the Esplanade of Ministries on January 8 was “extremely permeable”.
Gonçalves Dias was the minister of the Institutional Security Office when the January 8 coup attempt happened./ Bruno Spada/Câmara dos Deputados
The retired general said that the corporation did not strictly comply with security planning at the site, despite being responsible for it. “I watched the last Military Police blockade being easily broken before the vandals reached Planalto Palace. That couldn't have happened. It only happened because the Military Police blockade was extremely permeable.”
Edited by: Nadini Lopes e Rodrigo Durão Coelho
