Federal Police raids addresses of Bolsonaro’s son
Rio de Janeiro’s city councilor Carlos Bolsonaro, a son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, was the target of an operation served by the Federal Police on Monday to deepen the investigation into the existence of an alleged illegal espionage scheme by the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) during the Bolsonaro administration.The suspicion is that a kind of "parallel Abin" was created to illegally monitor public authorities and political foes, in addition to gathering information on investigations that could affect Mr. Bolsonaro, his children, and allies. All of this was allegedly done with the help of the First Mile software, which can monitor the cell phones of up to 10,000 people.Last week, lawmaker Alexandre Ramagem, who led the agency between 2019 and 2022, was the target of searches as part of Operation Vigilância Aproximada (Close Watch). This time, the searches targeted the "political core" of the system. A total of nine search and seizure warrants were granted in Rio, Angra dos Reis (in the state of Rio de Janeiro), Brasília, Salvador (Bahia), and Formosa (Goiás).According to the Federal Police, the goal was to identify "the main recipients and beneficiaries of information illegally produced within Abin through clandestine actions."Carlos’s office in the Rio City Council was one of the addresses searched by the Federal Police. However, the councilor was with his father at the family’s summer house in Mambucaba, a historic village in Angra dos Reis, a fashionable municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro. On Sunday, together with Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, the two held a "live" to talk about the municipal elections to be held later this year. However, when they arrived at the venue, the Federal Police found no one.According to the former president’s aides, they left at 5 a.m. to go fishing but returned home as soon as they heard about the search warrant.The operation was authorized by Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Federal Supreme Court. Also targeted were Luciana Paula Garcia da Silva Almeida (Carlos Bolsonaro’s cabinet advisor), Priscila Pereira e Silva (Mr. Ramagem’s former advisor), and Giancarlo Gomes Rodrigues (an army officer who worked for Abin during Mr. Ramagem’s administration). Valor attempted to contact Ms. Almeida and Mr. Rodrigues by phone, social media, and email, but they were not immediately available. When asked to comment on Ms. Silva, Mr. Ramagem’s office had not taken a position or issued...
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