Former intelligence director denies using data to raid Lula voters in 2022

Federal Police delegate Marília Ferreira de Alencar, who held the position of director of intelligence at the Ministry of Justice during the 2022 elections, said in her testimony that she confirmed that she requested a study that identified locations where Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro received more than 75% of the votes in the first round of that year's presidential election, but denies having passed the data to the Federal Highway Police to operate blitzes in the Northeast region in the second round.
"I requested (the data dashboard) for all municipalities, not just the Northeast, and for all candidates," Alencar said. "I never thought of using this BI (acronym for business intelligence, the dashboard) for the Federal Highway Police or anyone else."
In testimony given in May, former intelligence analyst at the Ministry of Justice's General Intelligence Coordination Clebson Ferreira de Paula Vieira stated that he was commissioned to carry out studies on the distribution of PRF agents on the eve of the second round of the 2022 presidential elections.
The orders, he said, came from the then-Secretary of Public Security, Marília Ferreira de Alencar. "I received two requests, which were passed directly to me. The first was the analysis of voter turnout data above 75%, for both Lula and Bolsonaro. She asked me to print some documents and create some spreadsheets. The second was the distribution of a dashboard to the Federal Highway Police for possible decision-making," he said in his testimony.
Vieira stated that, at the time, he suspected that the data would be used for electoral purposes and noticed bias in the requests he received from his superiors. In another request he reported receiving, Marília allegedly commissioned an analysis of possible correlations between votes for Lula and areas dominated by the Comando Vermelho.
The job was requested after the Workers' Party candidate held a campaign event in Complexo do Alemão, a community in Rio de Janeiro. At the time, Jair Bolsonaro's allies used the campaign event to associate his opponent with organized crime.
"An analysis was requested: cross-check all ballot boxes in territories under the Comando Vermelho administration to see if there was any correlation or causality. The result was inconclusive," Vieira said.
A report produced by the Regional Electoral Court of Rio Grande do Norte (TRE-RN) and sent to the Federal Police indicates evidence that the blitzes carried out by the Federal Highway Police in the second round of the presidential elections may have delayed the arrival of voters at polling stations.
Former PRF operations director Djairlon Henrique Moura confirmed, in May to the STF, that he had participated in a meeting on October 19, 2022, in which, according to the complaint filed by the Attorney General's Office (PGR), “targeted policing” was discussed, which would be carried out in the second round.
The complaint brings up a conversation in a WhatsApp group in which the former director of intelligence at the Ministry of Justice, Marília de Alencar, claims that in this meeting Anderson Torres was “not at all impartial” and “soon put a 22”, in reference to Bolsonaro's ballot number.
Alencar is the only woman among the 34 people indicted by the PGR for attempted coup d'état.
According to the complaint, Marília is accused of “improper use of the Federal Highway Police structure to obstruct the movement of voters to electoral zones in regions of the Northeast” and of coordinating the use of police forces “to support the illegitimate permanence of Jair Messias Bolsonaro in power”.
On January 8, 2023, the delegate was Undersecretary of Intelligence for the Federal District.
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