In both cases, Bolsonaro was indicted by the Federal Police (PF) and, for him to become a defendant, the Attorney General’s Office must offer a favorable opinion.

On Tuesday, the Attorney General’s Office formally charged the former governor and 33 others with the crimes of armed criminal organization, attempted violent abolition of the democratic rule of law and coup d’état.

Also for damage qualified by violence and serious threat against the patrimony of the Union, with considerable damage to the victim and deterioration of declared patrimony.

In the case of jewelry, Bolsonaro and assistants were incriminated in July.

According to the PF, all would have used the structure of the Brazilian State to divert assets of high patrimonial value, delivered by foreign authorities on official missions to government representatives, through the sale of these items abroad.

The amounts obtained with these operations, according to the investigation, ‘entered the personal assets of those investigated through interposed persons and without using the formal banking system, to hide the origin, location and ownership of the values’.

Bolsonaro was charged in this case for embezzlement (misappropriation of public funds), criminal association and money laundering.

In the inquiry into an alleged forgery of anti-Covid-19 vaccination certificates, the former president and 15 allies were charged with the crimes of criminal association and insertion of non-existent data in the public system.

The PF points out that the purpose of the fraud was to state in the vaccination card that the former Army captain had been immunized against the pathogen, which never happened.

With this, the defendants were able to issue their respective inoculation certificates and use them to circumvent the sanitary restrictions imposed by the public authorities to prevent the spread of the disease.

For the time being, the Supreme Federal Court only has in its hands the resounding denunciation of the alleged coup plot in 2022.

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