The Attorney General's Office said that Mauro Cid acted without authorization. This argument did not convince Moraes.
The Deputy Attorney General argued that Bolsonaro's former aide, Mauro Cid, acted without the former head of government's knowledge.
247 - Brazil's Deputy Attorney General, Lindôra Araújo, has asked Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to grant the Attorney General's Office (PGR) access to the case file so that the body can comment on the searches, seizures, and preventive arrests related to Jair Bolsonaro's vaccination card.
The document is believed to have been altered, according to investigators from the Federal Police (PF). An operation by the agency led to the seizure of Bolsonaro's own cell phone and the arrest of aides who allegedly participated in the scheme.
Lindôra states in the document that one of these aides, Bolsonaro's former aide-de-camp Mauro Cid, acted without the former head of government's knowledge.
"The information included in the case file does not serve as even minimally consistent evidence to link former President of the Republic JAIR MESSIAS BOLSONARO and his wife, MICHELLE DE PAULA FIRMO REINALDO BOLSONARO, to the alleged illicit acts described in the Federal Police report, either as co-perpetrators or accomplices," the document states.
“Contrary to the narrative presented by the Federal Police, what emerges is that MAURO CESAR BARBOSA CID allegedly orchestrated and led the entire criminal action, without the knowledge or consent of former President JAIR MESSIAS BOLSONARO. There is no minimum evidentiary basis to support the involvement of former President JAIR MESSIAS BOLSONARO in the acts of inserting false vaccination data into the Ministry of Health's systems and in the possible use of ideologically false documents,” it adds.
In his decision, Moraes challenged Lindôra's understanding, defending the need for a search and seizure at Bolsonaro's home.
"At the current stage of the criminal investigation, however, the assertion by the Attorney General's Office that 'MAURO CESAR BARBOSA CID orchestrated and led the entire criminal action, without the knowledge or consent of former President JAIR MESSIAS BOLSONARO,' does not seem credible, even though it has acknowledged the existence of evidence of the insertion of false data about JAIR MESSIAS BOLSONARO and his daughter into the system."
"Ministry of Health (ConecteSus)," Moraes says in his decision.
It is a well-known fact that MAURO CÉSAR BARBOSA CID, investigated in these proceedings, held the position of aide-de-camp to former President of the Republic JAIR MESSIAS BOLSONARO, under the terms of Law 1.608/52, executing his personal orders. There is no indication in the records that lends credibility to the version that the aide-de-camp of former President of the Republic JAIR MESSIAS BOLSONARO could have commanded a significant criminal operation, directly aimed at the then-president and his daughter, without, at the very least, the knowledge and acquiescence of the former, a circumstance that can only be ascertained through the execution of the search and seizure warrant requested by the police authority,” it adds.