Brazil: Bolsonaro deported key official suspected of corruption

This is Gustavo Bebbiano, Secretary General of the Presidency. His party is accused of embezzling funds from the campaign.

The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, on Monday sent to the Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Gustavo Bebianno, one of his trusted men and who was splashed by an election financing affair.

The Brazilian leader on Monday announced the first step in the fall of the government after a week of intense negotiations between some ministers to contain a crisis of alleged financial irregularities within the Social Liberal Party (PSL), formation to which belongs to Bolsonaro. .

Shortly before, the president had told some employees to be "calm" in the face of rumors that his former man of confidence could reveal secrets of the election campaign, reported journalist Josias de Souza of the site of 39 UOL news.

"Anyone who suffers an injustice does not look good," said Secretary General of the Presidency Bebianno in an interview published Monday in the newspaper Estado de San Pablo. In conversations with relatives, Bebianno did not rule out details of last year's election campaign and possibly some of the three influential children of the president with whom he had a clash. "The time has come to cool off your head," Bebianno said Sunday, as he was approached by reporters in Brasilia. 2018

A series of reports from the Folha newspaper in San Pablo reported that in the PSL campaign, there was an irregular money management that used frontline candidates to justify the female quota. Last Friday, Bolsonaro held a "tense" meeting with the Secretary General of the Presidency, after informing the minister that he had decided to dismiss him.

The departure of this official was opened as a possibility when Carlos Bolsonaro, son of the president and Brazilian adviser, described him as a "liar" through social networks.

(Gustavo Bebbiano with Jair Bolsonaro)

The son of Bolsonaro called Twitter "liar" to Bebianno for having said to have mentioned on three occasions the scandal of the embezzlement of public campaign funds for the benefit of personalities having simulated acts of proselytism.

The case highlighted the unrestricted transit of Bolsonaro's three political sons to Plbadto Palace and consolidated the central role of the military core of the government.

In fact, the replacement of Bebianno in the General Secretariat of the Presidency would be Retired General Floriano Peixoto Vieira Neto, who would represent nine members of the military core in the House of Governments, all of whom held key positions.

The embezzlement scandal about which Bebianno is being investigated is part of the activities of the so-called "hiring parties" like the PSL, to which Bolsonaro joined last year, to increase its collection .

(Source: Clarín, ANSA, AFP and EFE)