Globo tears apart the Bolsonaro clan in a new episode of the war.

247 - The evening edition of this Thursday (17) of Jornal Nacional showed a long report on the decision of Minister Luiz Fux, of the Supreme Federal Court, who suspended the investigations into the suspicious movement of Fabrício Queiroz, former advisor to deputy Flávio Bolsonaro, following a request from Flávio Bolsonaro himself. 

The news program "JN" reminded viewers that Flávio Bolsonaro is not under investigation by the Public Prosecutor's Office and that the rapporteur for the case that obtained the injunction from Luiz Fux is Minister Marco Aurélio Mello. The Globo report also noted that Flávio Bolsonaro was invited to provide clarifications about the case, but did not appear before the Public Prosecutor's Office.  

Watch the report below, starting at minute 54:

Read below the Reuters news report about the suspension of investigations against Fabricio Queiroz:

BRASILIA (Reuters) - The acting president of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), Luiz Fux, suspended the investigation into atypical financial transactions of the former advisor to Flávio Bolsonaro (PSL-RJ), citing as his main justification the fact that the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rio de Janeiro (MP-RJ) had requested confidential banking data from COAF (Council for Financial Activities Control) regarding the son of President Jair Bolsonaro even after he had been elected senator.

Flávio's defense, who is currently a state deputy, alleged that there was an "usurpation" of the Supreme Court's authority when the Council for the Control of Financial Activities requested confidential information from him between April 2007 and the present to aid the investigation by the Rio de Janeiro Public Prosecutor's Office, even after he had been sworn in as a senator.

Flávio wants the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to have jurisdiction over the investigation and for all evidence gathered in the case so far to be declared null and void. His former parliamentary aide, Fabrício Queiroz, a former military police officer, came under investigation after the COAF (Council for Financial Activities Control) detected unusual bank transactions.

In a four-page decision, which Reuters had access to, Fux suspended the investigation by the Rio de Janeiro Public Prosecutor's Office until Minister Marco Aurélio Mello, the original rapporteur for Flávio's appeal, decides whether the case will proceed in the Supreme Court or in the Rio de Janeiro state court. Due to the Judiciary's recess, Marco Aurélio is only expected to resume analyzing the case in February.

"In a purely preliminary analysis, I see the presence of the requirements for granting the requested injunction, on an urgent basis, during the judicial recess, in order to suspend the original proceedings, without prejudice to future analysis by the case's rapporteur," said Fux, noting that the fact that he was sworn in confers upon him the prerogative of being tried in the Supreme Court.

The minister further argued, based on the precedent established in May 2018 by the Supreme Federal Court (STF), that parliamentarians can only be investigated by the court for acts committed during their term of office and for facts related to it.

"From the analysis of the records, it appears that the respondent authority requested information from COAF (Council for Financial Activities Control) regarding confidential banking data belonging to the plaintiff, covering a period after the confirmation of his election to the position of Senator of the Republic, without submission to judicial review," said Fux, while noting that there is a principle in which this analysis of prerogative of jurisdiction must be done on a case-by-case basis.

"Given this situation, and in order to protect the effectiveness of the process, I grant the suspension of the proceedings of PIC 2018.00452470, until the rapporteur of this Complaint rules on the request for the procedure to be taken over and for a declaration of illegality of the evidence that accompanied it, as alleged by the complainant," he concluded.

In the precedent set by the Supreme Court in May of last year, the court did not address whether the special jurisdiction applies to individuals after they are certified or only after they take office—in Flávio's case, in February.

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Queiroz was invited twice to provide clarifications to the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rio de Janeiro, but he did not appear, citing health problems. His family was also summoned to clarify the atypical movement of more than 1,2 million reais between 2017 and 2018, but they did not appear on the scheduled date.

According to the Attorney General of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Gussem, the absence of the former advisor in the depositions did not hinder the investigations, since the available material was quite substantial.

Flávio Bolsonaro also failed to appear for a deposition, but had promised to schedule a new date. Because he has parliamentary immunity, he could arrange a date with the prosecutors to appear and provide his explanations. The congressman used his social media account to justify his absence, arguing that he did not have access to the case file.

In December, Queiroz stated in an interview with SBT that his activities included reselling cars. He said he earned around 10 reais per month when he was an advisor to Flávio Bolsonaro and that his monthly income was around 24 reais, including his salary as a police officer.

According to the COAF report, among Queiroz's suspicious transactions totaling 1,2 million reais were deposits to the current First Lady, Michelle Bolsonaro.

The president has already justified the deposits by stating that they were payments on a loan he had made to Queiroz, and said that if he erred in not registering the transaction in his income tax return, he will correct the mistake.