Member of the 'parallel intelligence agency' promoted a meeting to 'switch the 2022 election,' says Federal Police.

247 - Exchanges of messages between civil servants and a deposition collected by the Federal Police (PF) indicate that Alan Oleskovicz, general coordinator of Operations at the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) in 2022, suggested an operation that could "turn the election around" in favor of then-President Jair Bolsonaro (PL). The accusation is part of the investigation into the so-called "parallel Abin" and is included in the PF report, made public by the Supreme Federal Court (STF), according to a report by FSP.

The messages obtained by investigators show that, on August 3, 2022—two months before the first round of elections—Oleskovicz met with three counterintelligence officers to discuss actions with the potential for political impact. One of the agents reported the meeting to a colleague via messaging app: “[Oleskovicz] called 3 from the CI [counterintelligence] team of the Doint [Department of Intelligence Operations] (from the last recruitment process) and started brainstorming an operation 'that could turn the election around'.”

At the time, Bolsonaro was trailing Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) in the polls. The last Datafolha poll before the meeting, released on July 28, 2022, showed Lula with 47% of voting intentions, compared to 29% for the then-president.

According to the agent, the three employees summoned by Oleskovicz approached him after the meeting to report the incident, which he considered serious. In response to his colleague's complaint, the interlocutor stated: “Man, that's it. It's no coincidence that [he] is the general coordinator. I have nothing against Bolsonaro supporters, but he might be like those from the sect. He's evangelical, conservative... Then he'll sink the entire agency with him.”

The suspicions gained traction with a statement given by another employee to the Federal Police in December 2023. The agent stated that he had heard the account of the case and said that the analysis team was "horrified" by the proposal. According to the statement, Oleskovicz allegedly argued, in a meeting with other departments, that "the work of operations would be important to help the government's campaign."

Alan Oleskovicz was indicted for embezzlement and malfeasance. Also indicted were the former director of ABIN (Brazilian Intelligence Agency) and current federal deputy Alexandre Ramagem (PL-RJ), and Ramagem's successor at the head of the agency, Victor Carneiro. [The text abruptly ends here, so the translation also ends here.] SheetOleskovicz did not respond by the time of publication.

Politically linked to former director Ramagem, Oleskovicz was the acting director of the Operations Department and held a strategic position within the agency's structure. Ramagem, in turn, has criticized the Federal Police investigation and attributes its conclusions to a "political feud."

The episode reignites suspicions surrounding a statement made by General Augusto Heleno, then Minister of the Institutional Security Cabinet (GSI), in July 2022. In a ministerial meeting, Heleno mentioned the idea of ​​"setting up a scheme to monitor what both sides" were doing in the campaign, suggesting a possible infiltration by ABIN agents. Upon hearing the proposal, Bolsonaro interrupted the general and suggested discussing the matter in a private conversation.

In testimony before the Supreme Federal Court on the 10th, Heleno denied the viability of the proposal. He said that "it is not technically possible to infiltrate agents in the short term" and that his intention was only to prevent "violent actions against the candidates."

After Ramagem left Abin in April 2022 to run for election, the leadership of the agency was assumed by Victor Carneiro, then superintendent of Abin in Rio de Janeiro and also linked to Bolsonaro's political group.