A draft congressional report on Brazil’s Jan. 8 riots has accused ex-President Jair Bolsonaro of being the insurrection’s mastermind.
A draft congressional report on Brazil's Jan. 8 riots on Tuesday accused ex-President Jair Bolsonaro of being the insurrection's mastermind and recommended he be criminally charged with attempting to stage a coup. The report by Sen. Eliziane Gama followed months of hearings by a committee investigating the uprising in Brasilia, and cited evidence including phone records. It proposed charges against Bolsonaro including the violent overthrow of democratic rule.
In one of the inquiry’s most-watched hearings, a Brazilian hacker claimed that Bolsonaro, then still in power, had asked him to infiltrate the country’s electronic voting system to expose its alleged weaknesses ahead of the Oct. 30, 2022 presidential election. Bolsonaro acknowledged he and the hacker spoke, but denies the allegation that he requested a the hack. Aside from Bolsonaro, Gama’s list of proposed indictments also targets dozens of others. They include Gen.
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