FILE PHOTO: Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro speaks with journalists as he arrives at Alvorada Palace, amid the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) outbreak, in Brasilia, Brazil, Might perhaps possibly well perhaps additionally 22, 2020. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro expects the Supreme Court to search out no wrongdoing and cease an investigation into doable political interference in the federal police, per an announcement from the presidential palace on Monday.
An allegation by aged Justice Minister Sergio Moro, a typical anti-graft crusader, that Bolsonaro aimed to intervene in police investigations has change into a political scandal in conjunction with to the public neatly being disaster caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
Final week, the federal Supreme Court launched a video recording of an April 22 ministerial assembly all the draw in which thru which Bolsonaro acknowledged he wished to change security officers, their bosses and even ministers to stay his family and chums from getting “screwed.”
Bolsonaro acknowledged in the assertion on Monday that he expects the “subject to be handled with responsibility and serenity.”
Writing on Facebook after the discharge of the video, Bolsonaro acknowledged there changed into once “no indication of interference in the federal police.” In a radio interview with Jovem Pan, he acknowledged he had been speaking about his like non-public security and no longer senior participants of the federal police.
Reporting by Tatiana Bautzer; editing by Grant McCool
