Tag: Mauro Cid

• Tuesday, March 19th 2024 - 18:35 UTC

  Police indict Bolsonaro in vaccine certification fraud probe

  

  Brazil's Federal Police (PF) Tuesday indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly forging his Covid-19 vaccination records. The case now goes to the Public Prosecutor's Office for a final decision on whether or not to press formal charges against the former head of state, his then aide-de-camps Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, and Congressman Gutemberg Reis as well as 14 other people listed in the investigation.

• Saturday, September 23rd 2023 - 12:23 UTC

  Bolsonaro did entertain coup plans, former aide tells

  

  Brazilian Army Lieutenant-Colonel Mauro Cid, a former aide-de-camps to then-President Jair Bolsonaro, has told the Federal Police as part of a plea bargain that, shortly after his defeat in the runoff to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the head of state was handed by his advisor Filipe Martins a draft decree to call new elections.

• Monday, June 19th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

  Bolsonaro aide's phone found to contain coup plans

  

  The mobile telephone of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's aide-de-camp Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid was found to contain a series of WhatsApp messages with other military officers openly advocating a coup d'état after last year's elections, it was reported.