A judge of the Supreme Court of Brazil determined on Thursday that alleged irregularities are investigated in which the government of former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) incurred, already convicted of coup, during the Covid-19 pandemic, which left more than 700,000 deaths in the country.
The decision was taken by Judge Flávio Dino, who has asked for the reopening of several aspects of a case that had been filed by the Attorney General’s Office in mid -2022, when Bolsonaro was still in power.
At the time, the then Attorney General Augusto Aras, a man faithful to Bolsonarism, rejected the content of a report prepared by a special commission of the Senate, who investigated the management of the government against the pandemic and detected numerous irregularities. The parliamentary report, in fact, accused Bolsonaro of nine crimes: crimes against humanity, sanitary infraction, medical charlatanería, incitement to the crime, falsification of documents, irregular use of public money, prevarication, epidemic with the result of death and attacks against the dignity of the position.
60 days to investigate
In the document in which the case was ordered to reopen, he said that “parliamentary investigation indicated indications of crimes against public administration, especially with contracts, fraud with tenders, overpricing, diversion of public resources, signing of contracts with facade companies”, among many others.
Some of these situations refer to the purchase of supposedly effective medicines against COVID, but which were then ineffective and that were still acquired by the Government and distributed in the Public Health Network, such as chloroquine.
The decision of Judge Dino, who gave a period of 60 days for the Federal Police to investigate the matter, was announced a week after the First Supreme Chamber, of which the magistrate is part, condemned Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in jail for a coup conspiracy warned after Lula defeated him at the polls, in the October 2022 elections. Source: news
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