Documents show that Flávio Bolsonaro mobilized tax officials to annul the investigation into the "rachadinha" case.

247 - Documents obtained by Folha de S. Paul The evidence shows that Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) submitted a request for an internal investigation by the Federal Revenue Service with the aim of annulling the investigations into the "rachadinha" scheme he allegedly committed while a state deputy in Rio de Janeiro.

Two tax auditors and three tax analysts were deployed by the coordinator of the National Tax Investigation Group, Luciano Almeida Carinhanha, on the orders of the Special Secretary of the Revenue Service, José Barroso Tostes Neto, to address the parliamentarian's request.

Flávio Bolsonaro, through his lawyers Luciana Pires, Renata Alves de Azevedo, Juliana Bierrenbach, and Rodrigo Rocha, requested an investigation "with the utmost urgency" to identify the "name, CPF [Brazilian taxpayer ID], qualifications, and work/assignment unit" of tax auditors who, since 2015, have accessed his tax data, that of his wife, Fernanda, and of companies related to them.

The argument put forward by Flávio's defense was that tax officials in Rio de Janeiro had illegally searched his data and that of his family members, passing the information on to COAF (Council for the Control of Financial Activities), the body responsible for the intelligence report sent to the Rio de Janeiro Public Prosecutor's Office that gave rise to the investigation into the "rachadinhas" (embezzlement scheme).

The senator stated that the violation to which he was allegedly subjected represents "an immense risk to the stability of the country's various institutions." "The crisis that is unfolding in the country, as a consequence of the facts presented here, tends to grow, affecting not only the author and his family, but countless citizens, especially businesspeople, public officials, and politicians, regardless of ideology or political party."

The internal investigation concluded that the senator's claims were unfounded. The Internal Revenue Service stated that the COAF (Council for Financial Activities Control) did not obtain information extraneous to the agency and said that "any and all access to tax systems and databases has records of who performed the access and when it was performed," therefore the alleged "cloak of invisibility" does not exist. "The Internal Revenue Service does not possess or use any type of 'secret password' or 'invisible password.' Any and all access to tax systems and databases has records of who performed the access and when it was performed, regardless of whether the employee is working in the Internal Affairs Office or in the Research and Investigation Offices," stated the Cotec (General Coordination of Technology and Information Security) of the Tax Authority during the investigation. Flávio Bolsonaro had alleged that employees used technical means to search his accounts without leaving a trace.

Finally, the Revenue Service concluded that "no minimum evidence of possible disciplinary infractions was found that would justify the continuation or further investigation of the case. (...) It was possible to verify that none of the allegations contained (...) [in] Senator Flávio Nantes Bolsonaro's request were consistent with the reality of the facts investigated, and, for now, there is no evidence of possible authorship or materiality of possible administrative offenses that would justify the initiation of an accusatory disciplinary procedure."

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