Government acknowledges that the militia crisis has reached the Presidential Palace.
The revelation that Flávio Bolsonaro employed the mother and wife of Adriano Magalhães da Nóbrega, a fugitive former BOPE captain and head of the Escritório do Crime militia in Rio, has escalated the crisis engulfing the eldest son of President Jair Bolsonaro. In the Planalto Palace, the order is to try to shield the head of the federal executive branch. Government supporters acknowledge that the president's complacent statements about the militias and his silence after the death of Marielle Franco (PSOL) in March 2018 provide more than enough ammunition for the opposition.
247 - The revelation that Senator-elect Flávio Bolsonaro (PSL-RJ) employed the mother and wife of Adriano Magalhães da Nóbrega, a fugitive former BOPE captain and head of the Escritório do Crime militia in Rio, has escalated the crisis engulfing the eldest son of President Jair Bolsonaro. In the Planalto Palace, the order is to try to shield the head of the federal executive branch, according to information published by [source name missing]. Panel column From Folha de S.Paulo. According to the text, government supporters recognize that the president's complacent remarks about the militias and his silence after the death of former Rio councilwoman Marielle Franco (PSol), in March 2018, provide more than enough ammunition for the opposition.
On Tuesday (22), militiamen accused of illegal real estate exploitation in Rio das Pedras, west of Rio de Janeiro, were arrested by Operation The Untouchables. Two targets are suspected of being part of the so-called Crime Office, a kind of armed wing of the organization and suspected of involvement in the murder of Marielle. The group committed murder on commission and it is suspected that the murder against the former parliamentarian was commissioned - the criminals even fired the shots in a place without cameras.
Another detail is that, during the election campaign, Jair Bolsonaro was the only presidential candidate who did not comment on the crime.
Investigations by the police and the judiciary in Rio also revealed that Flávio Bolsonaro employed in his office Raimunda Veras Magalhães, mother of former BOPE captain Adriano Magalhães da Nóbrega, who was identified by the Rio de Janeiro Public Prosecutor's Office as the strongman of the "Escritório do Crime" (Office of Crime) and is currently a fugitive.
The former captain and Major Ronald Paulo Alves Pereira, who was also a target of the operation, were honored in 2003 and 2004 at the Alerj (Rio de Janeiro State Legislative Assembly) at the suggestion of then-state deputy Flávio Bolsonaro.
What could also be a "bombshell" for the Bolsonaro family is that the major could make a plea bargain and expose the entire criminal organization he is part of.see here).