A judge of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) of Brazil ordered President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday to appear before the Federal Police in the midst of the investigation for the alleged disclosure of confidential documents to question the reliability of the electoral system.
Judge Alexandre de Moraes summoned President Bolsonaro to come this Friday at two in the afternoon to give a statement at the headquarters of the Regional Superintendence of the Federal Police in Brasilia.
“The decision was issued in Instruction (INQ) 4878, which investigates the leak, by the president, of confidential data related to investigations involving the Superior Electoral Court,” the STF reported in a press release.
Bolsonaro, who faces several investigations, had until this Friday to choose a day and place for the interrogation, but he did not do so, according to Judge Alexandre de Moraes.
The investigation for which the Brazilian president was ordered to testify comes from August 2021, after Jair Bolsonaro published a police report on his social networks regarding a cyber attack on the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) in 2018.
The president exhibited the documents on his social networks to supposedly prove that the electronic voting system used since 1996 in Brazil is not reliable, however the theory was never corroborated by any electoral authority, judicial investigation or other competent body.
His constant questioning of the voting system earned the far-right president the opening of another investigation in the Supreme Court, for the crimes of slander and incitement to crime.
Bolsonaro is also facing investigations over suspicions that he prevaricated by failing to report an attempted fraudulent purchase of the Indian vaccine Coxavin.
