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Do
Val revealed on Thursday that Silveira, a close ally of
Bolsonaro, tried to persuade him to join a conspiracy to
overturn the far-right leader's electoral loss, asking him to
try and get Moraes to make compromising comments in a taped
conversation that could lead to the judge's arrest.
Bolsonaro had made baseless attacks on the integrity of Brazil's
electronic voting system, which Moraes - also the head of the
country's top electoral authority (TSE) - defended in decisions
that the former president blamed for his defeat.
Moraes said during an event held in Lisbon that Do Val
approached him to talk about the meeting. The justice said he
then asked the senator to testify formalizing the allegations,
but Do Val declined to.
Do Val told reporters on Thursday that Bolsonaro, narrowly
defeated by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in an October
vote, "sat in silence" while Silveira laid out the plot against
Moraes at the meeting.
Silveira was arrested by police on Thursday on a warrant issued
by Moraes, who accused him of disobeying court rulings.
Bolsonaro left Brazil for Florida 48 hours before Lula took
office, without ever conceding defeat.
(Reporting by Gabriel Araujo and Eduardo Simoes; Editing by
Steven Grattan)
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