Brasilia: The Senate commission that supervises the government’s management before the Covid-19 (CPI) announced that it will communicate to the Supreme Court of Brazil about the crimes of President Jair Bolsonaro, enough until today for an impeachment, Prensa Latina publishes.
‘There is no situation more serious than the one heard so far. In the history of the parliamentary commissions of inquiry, in the two circumstances of impeachment (impeachment) that we had in the Republican era since 1988, there is nothing so serious?, ” the vice president of the ICC, Randolfe Rodrigues, told the press.
He reiterated that only the challenges heard in the last 30 years should be reviewed, which do not reach “a third of the seriousness of what was seen in this ICC” and even more than what was perceived on Friday, said Rodrigues, convinced of the existence of sufficient evidence to depose Bolsonaro.
Federal deputy Luis Miranda and his brother, Ricardo Miranda, an official of the Ministry of Health, declared on that day, who reiterated the accusation of alleged irregularities in the purchase of Covaxin, an anti-Covid-19 vaccine from the Indian laboratory Bharat Biotech.
The second denounced that in March he received atypical pressure from superiors of that portfolio to approve a contract to obtain Covaxin and presented messages received with the daily pressure of directors and a company for such acquisition.
Previously, the head of the Ministry’s Imports Department discussed this issue with the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, which is also investigating the case and identified suspicions of crime and sanitary risk in the operation.
Pressured by the members of the board, the legislator confirmed for his part that Bolsonaro cited the name of Congressman Ricardo Barros as the alleged intellectual author of the alleged anomalies in the Covaxin purchase. According to the rapporteur Renán Calheiros, the day was historic for the commission, which is progressing in another branch of the investigations.
?With the arrival of the Miranda brothers, we enabled the ICC for this great day. We make progress in relation to those theses contained in the work plan and we enter into this part of the diversion of public money, for personal benefit?, Calheiros evaluated.
For the head of the commission, Omar Aziz, the seriousness of the events in the brothers’ testimony is greater than imaginable, especially since the congressman appointed as the plan’s mentor is a government leader in the lower house.
Aziz indicated that the board should consider a proposal by Senator Simone Tebet for a confrontation between the former Minister of Health, General Eduardo Pazuello, and the officials cited in the case.
In its ninth week of allegations, the ICC evaluates the performance of the Executive Branch in the face of Covid-19, which to date claimed 513 thousand 474 lives lost and 18 million 420 thousand 598 infections due to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes Covid -19.
