Top court lifts secrecy of probe into Bolsonaro’s vaccination records
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes decided Wednesday (May 3) to lift the secrecy of the inquiry that led to the seizure of the cellphone of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro and the arrest of his former aide-de-camp, Colonel Mauro Barbosa Cid.According to the report provided by the Federal Police in connection with Operation Venire, Cid arranged for the issuance of fake vaccination cards for COVID-19—first for his wife Gabriela Santiago Cid and their two daughters, then for Bolsonaro and his underage daughter. In a testimony held Wednesday, he remained silent before the authorities.The investigations were based on Cid’s computer and telephone records gathered under another probe, which looks into a live stream during which Bolsonaro falsely linked inoculation against COVI...