Brazil police seek spying charges against Bolsonaro

SAO PAULO: Brazil’s constabulary connected Tuesday called for far-right ex-leader Jair Bolsonaro, connected proceedings for alleged coup-plotting, to beryllium separately charged with amerciable espionage portion president, Bolsonaro’s lad and section media reported.

Bolsonaro risks astir 40 years successful situation if convicted of plotting to cling to powerfulness contempt losing October 2022 elections to left-winger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

In a abstracted improvement his lad Flavio said Tuesday that the constabulary were seeking to complaint him implicit suspicions that hundreds of nationalist figures were illegally spied connected during his 2019-2022 presidency.

The national constabulary successful a connection confirmed that it had wrapped up its probe “into the beingness of a transgression enactment that illegally spied connected nationalist authorities and produced disinformation.”

Brazilian media reported that the constabulary had recommended that a full of 35 radical beryllium charged successful the case, including Jair Bolsonaro and different of his sons, Carlos Bolsonaro, a Rio metropolis councillor.

The constabulary accidental that the alleged spying web operated arsenic a “parallel structure” wrong Brazil’s main spy bureau Abin.

The suspects besides see Abin’s manager nether Bolsonaro, Congressman Alexandre Ramagem.

Ramagem is besides among Bolsonaro’s co-accused successful the coup trial.

Investigators fishy immoderate of Abin’s agents of utilizing the Israeli spyware FirstMile to eavesdrop connected politicians from assorted parties, arsenic good arsenic connected Supreme Court judges and journalists.

Writing connected X, Flavio Bolsonaro, who is simply a senator, slammed the investigation, claiming that his begetter was ne'er questioned implicit the allegations.

Bolsonaro, 70, has rejected immoderate wrongdoing, claiming the assorted cases against him magnitude to politically-motivated judicial hounding, aimed astatine preventing him making a comeback successful 2026 elections.

The erstwhile service skipper dreams of emulating Donald Trump’s instrumentality to the White House, contempt being banned from holding nationalist bureau until 2030 implicit his attacks connected Brazil’s physics voting system.