Operation Tempus Veritatis

This group also held meetings to promote the dissemination of fake news against the Brazilian electoral system and monitored Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who authorized the operation.

The plot aimed to subvert the transition of power to newly elected president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by arresting Supreme Court justices and shutting down government institutions.

The targets of the search and seizure measures included the president of the Liberal Party, Valdemar Costa Neto, generals Braga Netto, Augusto Heleno, and Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, admiral Almir Garnier Santos, former minister Anderson Torres, and Bolsonaro himself, who had his passport seized.

During the meeting, the then minister of the Institutional Security Bureau (GSI), General Augusto Heleno, expressed the intention to infiltrate agents from the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) into both Jair Bolsonaro's and his main opponent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's electoral campaigns.

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes authorized the operation and issued precautionary measures, including a ban on maintaining contact with other individuals under investigation and a suspension from exercising public duties.