The deputy attorney general of the Public Ministry at the Federal Court of Auditors (TCU), Lucas Furtado, asked this Friday (22) the court to suspend payment of the salaries of 25 active and reserve military personnel of the Army who were indicted for Federal Police (PF) for coup d’état.
Among the military men mentioned are former president Jair Bolsonaro (retired captain), whose gross salary is R$12,300, reserve general Augusto Heleno, who receives R$36,500 gross, in addition to lieutenant- colonel Mauro Cid (R$ 27 thousand) and reserve general Braga Netto (R$ 35.2 thousand).
In the representation sent to the TCU, Lucas Furtado states that the cost of military salaries is R$8.8 million per year.
“If this situation is allowed – the continued payment of remuneration to these individuals – the State is spending public resources on the remuneration of agents who plotted the destruction of this very State to establish a dictatorship”, stated the deputy attorney.
In the document, Furtado also asked for the freezing of assets worth R$56 million from all 37 people indicted by the PF and the sharing of the investigation, which is under judicial secrecy, with the TCU.
“Because there is this evident causal unfolding between the coup plot engineered by the 37 defendants and the losses to public coffers resulting from the acts of destruction of public property on January 8, 2023, which amount to R$56 million, I consider that the precautionary measure also must cover the unavailability of goods”, he added.
According to the TCU, the process to evaluate the suspension of salaries has not yet been opened.
