Federal police confirmed yesterday that investigators had concluded their long-running investigation into what they called a coordinated attempt to "violently dismantle the constitutional state".
In a statement, police said the report which has been forwarded to the supreme court - formally accused 37 people of crimes including involvement in an attempted coup, the formation of a criminal organisation, and trying to tear down one of the world's largest democracies.
Bolsonaro, a disgraced army captain turned populist politician, was president from 2019 until the end of 2022. He has been accused along with some of the most important members of his far-right administration.
They include his former spy chief, the far-right congressman Alexandre Ramagem; the former defence ministers Gen Walter Braga Netto and Gen Paulo Sérgio Nogueira de Oliveira; and the former minister of justice and public security, Anderson Torres.
Others on the list include the former minister of institutional security, Gen Augusto Heleno; the former navy commander Adm Almir Garnier Santos; the president of Bolsonaro's political party, Valdemar Costa Neto; and Filipe Martins, one of Bolsonaro's top foreign policy advisers.
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