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In a defeat against elected Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PSL-RJ), Minister Marco Aurélio Mello of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) on Friday filed a motion for defense of the deputy who had suspended the investigation of the Queiroz business. The magistrate released the office of the Attorney General of Rio de Janeiro (MPRJ) to open a criminal investigation into the son of President Jair Bolsonaro and his former parliamentary advisor, Fabrício Queiroz, for allegedly atypical financial transactions. The Financial Activities Control Board (Coaf) has identified a series of fractional deposits in the accounts of both parties – which have not been heard in the process yet. The other legislators of the Legislative Assembly of Rio are also under investigation
On January 17, the defense of Flavio had triggered the request for the suspension of the trial by the STF, using the prerogative – so often criticized by him, his father and his brothers. privileged forum According to the request of the lawyer, it would be up to the Court to decide whether the case should leave the Joint Court, since it is now senator. In addition, the defendant accused the MPJJ of obtaining confidential data without the required judicial authorization – which prosecutors deny. The application was accepted as a preliminary injunction by Acting Tribunal President Luiz Fux, who delegated the final decision to the rapporteur Marco Aurélio Mello.
The attempt to stop the investigations was already doomed to failure. On Thursday, Mello had already indicated that he would refuse the request of the senator's defense evoking the jurisprudence of the STF which limited the court for possible crimes committed during the exercise of the mandate, which does not does not correspond to Flávio's situation. "During this process, the reading of the initial reveals that the applicant was, at the time of the facts, a deputy of the State in the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro and senator on December 18.
The Involvement of Flávio in the Queiroz Affair
Since the outbreak of the crisis of his former adviser, Queiroz, he said: "The legal situation does not fit with the competence of the Supreme Court, in late 2018, Flavio has always denied having opened an investigation and said that it was the driver's responsibility to provide the appropriate explanations. The request to suspend the process, however, explained that the senator would be more involved in the case than expected. Subsequently, the National Journal obtained two documents from the Coaf indicating several deposits made in cash on the account of the deputy of the time between June and July 2017. There were 48 deposits in installments of 2,000 reais, for a total of 96,000. The senator stated that the value was related to the sale of an apartment to a friend and that he had chosen to make deposits in the cashier to avoid queuing at the bank branch. The buyer of the property, Fábio Guerra, confirmed the transaction, but was not able to indicate the exact amount paid.
According to the document Coaf, Flávio and Queiroz have similar banking records, which indicate an attempt to conceal financial transactions: deposits and withdrawals were made in self-service boxes at within Alerj, in the context of operations in kind. Finally, JN disclosed that the Senator had made the payment of R $ 1,016,839 of a bank guarantee from the Federal Savings Bank. The Coaf does not know who would be the beneficiary of this payment. Flávio is defended during an interview with TV Record, claiming that it was an "apartment" bought at the factory. "When you buy an apartment in the factory, the financing comes from the construction company.When you leave Habite-se [documento que autoriza que o imóvel seja ocupado] when Caixa can make the financing, you are looking for the Caixa which has a lower interest. the construction company and I am no longer a debtor of the construction company and I am a debtor of the Caixa. "
The link with the militia
But the problems of Flávio do you stop there. On January 22, the Rio Civil Police attempted to arrest Captain Adriano Magalhães da Nóbrega, better known as Gordinho, detained by the Attorney General's Office in Rio de Janeiro at the head of the crime bureau, a group of militiamen suspected of having participated in the death of Marielle Franco. Nóbrega's mother and wife, Raimunda Veras Magalhães and Danielle Mendonça of Costa da Nóbrega, were crammed into Flávio's office. According to him, by indication of Queiroz.
In addition, while he was a deputy, Flávio proposed a "mention of praise and congratulations" and other honors to Nobrega and to other police officers suspected of being a member of parliament. to have links with militias. In a statement, the parliamentarian declared that he was "the victim of a defamatory campaign aimed at reaching the government of Jair Bolsonaro"
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