LT. Colonel Mauro Cid has struck a plea Bargain deal the police
In Brazil, one of Jair Bolsonaro’s most trusted aides has struck a plea bargain deal with the federal police, and is accusing the former president and other top level officials of plotting a military coup last November. teleSUR
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00:00 In Brazil, one of Bolsonaro's most trusted aides has started a plea bargain deal with
00:06 the federal police and is accusing the former president and other top-level officials of
00:12 pulling an ambulatory coup.
00:14 Last November, the in-receiver, our correspondent Brian Muir, has more.
00:21 Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, ex-president Bolsonaro's former personal assistant, has
00:27 struck a plea bargain deal with the federal police, who have revealed that he is accusing
00:31 a group of top officials of trying to overturn last year's presidential election results.
00:39 What we have heard from Mauro Cid's plea bargain testimony is that a criminal organization
00:45 was created to orchestrate a coup d'état, a violent abolition of the rule of law, which
00:56 didn't just involve Bolsonaro.
01:02 It also involved former Justice Minister Anderson Torres and General Heleno.
01:11 After Cid's allegations went public, President Bolsonaro's former institutional security
01:15 chief, General Augusto Heleno, was called to Congress to testify.
01:19 Heleno has a long history of anti-democratic activities dating from the days of the dictatorship,
01:25 when he worked with General Silvio Frota, leader of a fascist internal faction of the
01:29 army that disobeyed orders to stop executing political prisoners.
01:33 Heleno began by claiming Cid had never sat in on meetings between Bolsonaro and military
01:38 leaders.
01:39 Look who's there in the presidential palace, in a meeting with the defense minister and
01:43 the commander of the armed forces, just Mauro Cid, right there.
01:47 And General Heleno said he didn't go to meetings with the commanders of the armed forces.
01:52 If you'd like, I can pull up the video, you just say this.
01:55 As the investigation continues, a lot of powerful people in Brasilia are getting nervous over
02:00 Mauro Cid's deal with the federal police.
02:04 Brian Meir, TELUSIR, Recife.
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