Civic Chamber Minister Ciro Nogueira (PP-PI) filed a crime report with the STF (Federal Supreme Court) against Senator Izalchi Lucas (PSDB-DF) who blamed him during the CPI Covid. According to the minister, the politician committed an abuse of power and a slanderous denunciation.
The action will be analyzed by Minister Diaz Toffoli. While supplementing the final report of the commission investigating the actions and inaction of the government of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in the fight against the pandemic, the parliamentarian linked PP leaders, including Ciro Nogueira, to the deviation scheme at the Ministry of Health. Federal District for the purchase of rapid tests.
In a document sent to the STF, the minister’s lawyers said that Izalchi accused Ciro Nogueira of “pursuing political interests” in order to “attack and wear down the government.” In addition, the senator is said to have pursued the goal of “political self-promotion” because “he is likely to be a candidate for the government of the Federal District.”
Crime News also states that Izalchi “attempted to expedite the investigation by the federal police and the Department of Health into alleged health abnormalities in Brasilia.” The irregularities were investigated in a false negative operation, and according to Ciro Nogueira’s lawyers, they did not point to the minister’s involvement.
“The said behavior has been practiced during the current term of Senator Izalchi Lucas, and because of this, given that the senator only followed the CPI pandemic meetings due to his condition as leader of the PSDB, as he was not part of its composition,” — says the text, which states that the crime “is an unconditional public criminal act” and, therefore, should be continued with the filing of a complaint by the GPO (Prosecutor General’s Office), and reviewed and reviewed by the prosecutor’s office. STF.
