JOSE MARQUES
BRASILIA, DF (FOLHAPRESS)
Minister Cristiano Zanin, of the STF (Supreme Federal Court), determined this Monday (25) that former minister Augusto Heleno may not answer questions from the CPI on January 8 if he understands that they could result in harm to his defense or in their incrimination.
Heleno, who headed the GSI (Institutional Security Office) during the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) administration, was summoned to the parliamentary committee session this Tuesday (26).
He was called as a witness, but his defense states that, in several applications approved by the CPI, his name appears as “involved”, and they relate the coup acts to Heleno’s “possible omissive conduct”.
The general’s defense requested that he not attend the session and that, if he had to be present, his right to silence and to be assisted by a lawyer be guaranteed.
In this Monday’s decision, Zanin says that Heleno has the duty to speak out about facts and events related to the investigation only as a witness.
But, according to the minister, he has “the right to silence and the guarantee of non-self-incrimination if asked to answer questions whose answers could result in his harm or incrimination.”
Zanin also authorized the assistance of lawyers during questioning and the possibility for the former minister to communicate with them.
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