Mauro Cid’s defense denies escape plan: it is ‘idiocy’ invented by Bolsonaro

Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, former Jair Bolsonaro orders, denied, in the statement given to the Federal Police on Friday, 13, that he planned to flee to the United States, where his daughter lives and studies. His lawyer, Cezar Bitencourt, told the Estadão That this version is an “idiocy” invented by the former president and has ensured that his client has fulfilled all commitments as a whistleblower.

“There has never been an attempt to escape. Cid doesn’t have to escape. Where did this idiocy come from? From Bolsonaro. He invented that. The ICD is fulfilling his part. The Cid family lives in the US, his daughter studies there.”

The military also denied being the author of the messages revealed by a report by the magazine Look in which he allegedly confessed to lied to the Federal Supreme Court. “There is no message exchange. It doesn’t exist.”

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Cid gave testimony of three and a half hours to the Federal Police (PF), in Brasilia, on Friday, 13, after investigators found indications that former Tourism Minister Gilson Machado tried to get a Portuguese passport to the military.

Ax was arrested. Cid even had his arrest decreed by the Supreme Court Minister (STF) Alexandre de Moraes, but the act was then revoked. Mauro Cid arrived at the headquarters of PF around 11am by car, and made no statements to the press. Nor did it comment at the end.

The former ordinant of orders is a whistleblower in the action that investigates a plan coordinated by Bolsonaro assistants to avoid the inauguration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and give a coup d’état. He is also a defendant in the so -called core 1 of the coup plot.

Last Monday, 9, he confirmed, in the interrogation led by Moraes at the STF, who received from General Walter Braga Netto, then Minister of the Civil House, a cash box for the Major of Army Rafael Olveira, one of the “Black Kids”, a special group of force.