Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, a former joint manner of former President Jair Bolsonaro, told the Federal Police (PF), in award -winning agreementthat the former president received $ 86,000 in cash in cash for the sale of clocks and jewelry that made up the collection of the presidency of the Republic. The items were received by the agent as gifts from foreign authorities.
Of this amount, Cid confessed that a part – $ 18,000 – was delivered by him in mid -2022, after selling a Chopard jewelry kit that had been presented by Saudi Arabia in 2019. The items were sold in Miami, In the United States, the lieutenant colonel revealed.
The other $ 68,000 were passed on to Bolsonaro in a fractional way, always in kind, through Mauro Cid’s father, General Mauro Cesar de Lourena Cid, who lived in the US. This value corresponds to the sale of two watches, one of the Rolex brand and one from Patek Philippe.
In the statement, Mauro Cid said that there is no record of the sale of the goods, and that he only removed the costs he had with airfare and rent of the vehicle. According to the statement, Lieutenant Colonel said that he adjusted with his father, General Mauro Cesar Lorena, that the withdrawal of the other $ 68,000 would occur fractionated and would be delivered as someone known traveled from the United States to Brazil.
The so -called “White Gold Kit”, consisting of Rolex and jewelry, was selected in the presidential collection by Cid himself, after Bolsonaro asked him to identify which objects received as a gift could be sold more easily. Patek Philippe was handed over to Bolsonaro himself, he said the lieutenant colonel.
Cid said only he and Bolsonaro knew sales. He said he personally went to the US state of Pennsylvania, at the headquarters of the Precision Watchs store, where he sold both watches for $ 68,000, which were deposited in his father’s account.
The other items in the white gold kit were sold by him at Seybold Jewerly Building, Miami gallery specializing in jewelry trade.
Lieutenant Colonel tried to justify his attitude claiming to have received the guidance of the Deputy Historical Documentation Office that the items sold was part of Bolsonaro’s personal collection, not the presidency’s public collection.
In July last year, Bolsonaro, ICD and 11 others investigated were indicted by the Federal Police (PF) for the diversion of the items. The former president is suspected of embezzlement, a crime of appropriation of public goods for his own benefit.
Bolsonaro’s defense has always denied his involvement in the case. The PF report that indicated the former president was sent by Minister Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the case in the Federal Supreme Court (STF), to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), who must decide on any complaint.
The confidentiality of Mauro Cid’s award-winning denunciation was overthrown by Moraes on Wednesday (19), a day after the Attorney General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet, denounced Lieutenant Colonel, Bolsonaro and 33 others for attempted coup d’état and abolition of the democratic rule of law, among other crimes.
