Bolsonaro received dollars on the day he said he had ‘uprooted corruption’ at the UN

There were only three days left before the end of the Northern Hemisphere summer in 2022 when then-President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) entered the United Nations building in New York to deliver the opening address to the UN General Assembly. It was September 20, 2022, and the eyes of the world were on the building, which was home to a huge number of heads of state and government from all over the world.

As expected, especially since this has happened in previous years, Bolsonaro threw a truckload of nonsense at the UN podium, and, taking advantage of the fact that it was an election year, turned the venue into a political platform. One sentence attracted a lot of attention for its aggressiveness and boastful tone.

“In my government, we have eliminated the systemic corruption that exists in the country,” the Brazilian president said arrogantly.

There was nothing new in the “anti-corruption” speech given by Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters, but what happened hours after those words, 1,130 meters away, at the Omni Berkshire Place Hotel, was the exact opposite of what the president had just said.

At a table set up in a reserved, protected area of ​​the luxury hotel, Bolsonaro sat at the edge of a round table with a few people, including his then-aide, Lt. Col. Mauro César Barbosa Cid, and his father, retired Gen. Mauro César Lorena Cid, a close friend and confidant of the president for decades. Bolsonaro was still dressed in the same attire he wore when speaking at the United Nations, except for the fact that he had removed his jacket. A white shirt and a dark blue tie.

According to the report of the Federal Police investigating the gang formed to steal jewelry and valuables from the collection of the Presidency of the Republic to sell them abroad, there are photos from the surveillance department showing the meeting, where Mr. Sayed delivered a package worth 37.6 thousand US dollars (about 201 thousand Brazilian reals), which is equivalent to part of the sale of two designer watches, a Patek Philippe and a Rolex, that went missing from the Palácio do Planalto and were criminally trafficked in a house that sells similar goods in the United States. The amount was not the total, as the retired general was unable to collect the full amount due to restrictions and limitations on withdrawals from ATMs in North America.

To make matters worse for the now-former president, Lorena Syed confirmed the story to PF in her statement, leaving no doubt about the illegal activity that was taking place in the middle of New York’s most upscale and central district.”[General Lourena Cid disse] And who remembers that he passed part of the money to former President Jair Bolsonaro, when he went to New York City to attend a UN event; that he passed the money when he visited the former president at the hotel where he was staying in New York; “He passed the money in cash to his son Mauro Cesar Cid,” reveals the police document sent to the STF.