One of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's closest aides sought legal advice for a military intervention that would have prevented the handover of power following last October's election, federal police said on Friday.
Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid was one of Bolsonaro's personal assistants who stayed on as an aide after he stepped down. He isAccording to an analysis of Cid's seized cell phone, a federal police report said he had "gathered documents with the aim of obtaining 'legal and judicial' support for the execution of a coup d'état."
Cid's research may have formed the basis of a step-by-step guide, also found on his phone, into how a possible coup could play out, police said.That planning document was first reported by news magazine Veja, prompting Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to unseal the police report and supporting documents.
In January, police found a draft presidential decree designed to meddle with the results of the election in the house of former Justice Minister Anderson Torres.
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