The Attorney General of the Republic, Augusto Aras, said in a video published this Friday (02), on the channel he maintains on the internet, that “this prosecutor’s office has become literally sabotaged”. According to Aras, complaints based on newspaper reports “previously planted” or made by “false authors” would be hindering the work of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR).
The release of the video comes at a time when the offices of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), and Aras are in shock. The most recent episode was on August 23 and involves the operation of the Federal Police authorized by Moraes against businessmen who would have defended a coup, in a WhatsApp group, in the event of the defeat of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in the elections. According to a note from the PGR, the warrants were carried out without Aras’ manifestation.
Although the statements made by Aras happened before, the video was released by the prosecutor only this Friday (02). The speeches, according to the publication, were given in an interview with the foreign press in early July. The video also features excerpts from two other meetings, in August, with journalists from Minas Gerais.
“Each representation that arrives at this institution is analyzed by a server, who makes a screening about the suitability of the authorship, the content, the evidence. She is later taken to a state prosecutor and is finally taken to the PGR. All this is a waste of time, a waste of public money. It is part of a strategy to prevent the prosecutor from continuing to investigate the real criminal organizations in this country”, accused Augusto Aras.
In the content released, the attorney general also compared his management to the head of the PGR in relation to predecessors. According to him, more investigations and accusations were produced in the last three years than in the previous ten years. “We produced here 400 investigations, complaints, arrests, removals of authorities and people with jurisdictional prerogatives in the Supreme and STJ”, he explained.
Then, the video is cut to an excerpt in which Aras defends the way he has been working: “We do not act with scandal of these operations, of processes, because while we investigate, we have an ethical duty not to make hasty, reckless convictions” .
Ten days ago, the attorney general expressed dissatisfaction with the decision of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, who authorized the Federal Police to search and apprehend addresses of businessmen who defend the government of Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
At the time, Augusto Aras claimed that he was not informed of the operation. But the biggest annoyance would be the fact that the action was authorized based on news published by the press, without support from the Public Ministry, as became clear this week when documents of the investigation became public.
In an apparent insinuation of a response to situations like this, the video released today brings at the end an excerpt in which Augusto Aras complains about the performance of some STF ministers.
“Many Supreme Court justices use the regimental norm to file the act out of court. And other ministers, in a minority, prefer to give these representations a procedural treatment, sending them to the prosecutor; the prosecution analyzes it, returns it. But this is all part of a use of the justice system for political ends. And it is time for us to investigate the abuses,” he concluded.
Source: CNN Brasil
