Moro x Bolsonaro Case

Hours before, President Jair Bolsonaro had published a decree in an extra edition of the Diário Oficial da União exonerating Federal Police Director General Mauricio Valeixo without Minister Sergio Moro knowing.

Immediately after his resignation, the Prosecutor General of the Republic asked the Supreme Federal Court to open an inquiry, causing a new political crisis to begin.

[4] In August 2019, Bolsonaro announced that the command of the Federal Police in Rio de Janeiro would be exchanged for "management and productivity" issues.

However, after the PF publicly indicated the chosen one, Bolsonaro said that the nominee would actually be the superintendent in Amazonas, Alexandre Silva Saraiva, and amended his statement stating that "I am in charge".

The decision would have been motivated by the resignation of the director general of the Federal Police, Maurício Valeixo, on the part of the president of the Republic, without the minister's knowledge.

He also stated that the president had not presented a justification for the change of command of the PF, failing to fulfill the commitment that he would have granted "carta branca" to make appointments.

[9][10] The Prosecutor General of the Republic, Augusto Aras, requested the Supreme Court to open an inquiry to investigate the complaints and, on April 27, Minister Celso de Mello, rapporteur of the case, authorized the opening of the inquiry arguing that "the crimes allegedly committed by the President of the Republic, as reported by the then Minister of Justice and Public Security, seem to be guarding (...) intimate connection with the exercise of the presidential mandate, in addition to maintaining - according to the period in which they would allegedly have been practiced - a contemporary relationship with the current performance of the political-legal functions inherent to the leadership of the Executive Branch".