This Tuesday (23) morning, the Federal Police are executing eight search and seizure warrants on the addresses of businessmen who might have shared messages containing the coup in Whats App groups. The order came from Minister Alexandre de Moraes of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) and was executed in five states: Santa Catarina, Ceara, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

Alexander de Moraes issues search and seizure warrants for business addresses in South Carolina and other states – Photo: Marcelo Camargo/Agência Brasil/North Dakota

The investigation looks into whether businessmen would defend coup strategies if Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) won this year’s elections. The action is the result of an exchange of messages in WhatsApp groups between the targets revealed in an August 17 article by journalist Guilherme Amado on the Metropoles portal.

Entrepreneurs: Luciano Hang (Havan stores), José Isaac Perez (Multiplan chain stores), Andre Tisso (Grupo Serra), Ivan Vrubel (Construtora W3), José Curi (Barra World Shopping), Meyer Nirgri (Tecnisa), Marco Aurelio Raimundo. (Mormai) and Afranio Barreira (Coco Bambu Group).

Luciano Hang took up a position in relation to the execution of warrants at his residence in Balneario Camboriu, on the north coast of Santa Catarina, and in Brusca, at the administrative headquarters of Havana, in Vale do Itajai. As a note, he said that he was “calm because I am on the side of the truth and with a clear conscience. Since I became a political activist, I have been preaching democracy and freedom of thought and expression so that we can have a fairer and freer country for all Brazilians.”

Another warrant was served in Garopad, south of Santa Catarina, against businessman Marco Aurelio Raimundo, known as Morongo.

ND+ contacted other entrepreneurs mentioned in the report, but received no response prior to the publication of this report. Updates will be made throughout the day to this article.

See full defense note by Luciano Hanga

Businessman Luciano Hang was surprised this morning [terça-feira, 23] with a search and seizure warrant issued by STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes. Luciano was working at his company at 6 a.m. when federal police approached him and took away his mobile phone.

The investigation was carried out because of an article published in a column by journalist Guilherme Amado from Metropoles on August 17 under the heading: “Exclusive. Bolsonarist businessmen defend a coup d’état if Lula is elected; see zaps”.

The businessman confirms that the article was irresponsible and did not reflect the truth. “I never talked about the STF or the coup. The journalist, in a frivolous and sensational manner, used fragmentary fragments of conversations and took them out of context,” he says.

Luciano’s speech to the Entrepreneurs and Politics group was as follows: “4 more years of Bolsonaro, 8 more years of Tarcisio, and then there will be no more room for these vagabonds,” he said, referring to the well-known politicians who were in power. for decades. Luciano’s message was a response to a speech by businessman Roberto Mota, who spoke about elections, not powers.

The speech of the businessman follows in full: “I remain calm, because I am on the side of the truth and with a clear conscience. Since I became a political activist, I have been preaching democracy and freedom of thought and expression so that we can have a fairer and freer country for all Brazilians. I am part of a group of 250 businessmen from different political currents, and each of them has his own point of view. As far as I know, there is still no crime of thought and opinion in Brazil. From my messages in the private whatsapp group, it appears that I have NEVER, ever talked about Coup or STF. I have fallen victim to the irresponsibility of petty, frivolous and militant journalism, which is unfortunately present in some newsrooms throughout Brazil. Here is my conversation with journalist Guilherme Amado from Metropoles on Thursday, August 18, around 18:00, where he himself admits that I never talked about a coup d’état: