Spokesperson for the Mossad-linked Israeli firm CySource, Hélio Sant’Ana was IT director at Palácio do Planalto through the Bolsonaro authorities, and has been discovered to have unfold disinformation in regards to the 2022 election.
By Paulo Motoryn for Brasil de Fato
One of many representatives of the Israeli firm CySource, which is in a technical cooperation agreement signed with the Brazilian Army’s Cyber Defense Command – the sector that may supervise the electoral course of – has revealed false information and analysis in regards to the Brazilian voting system.
Brasil de Fato positioned at the least 7 publications by which deceptive data was shared by a Twitter account of techniques analyst Hélio Cabral Sant’ana, former director of Info Know-how on the Common Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic and CySource’s consultant within the settlement with the Military.
Hélio Cabral Sant’Ana is linked to federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP). He’s additionally the brother of Sérgio Cabral Sant’Ana, a former advisor to the Ministry of Training within the authorities of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and government director of the Instituto Conservador Liberal (ICL) , which is chaired by “03”, Eduardo’s nickname. .
Among the many lies and pretend information revealed by the CySource worker, are electoral polls with out registration with the Superior Electoral Courtroom (TSE), which violate laws, and an open marketing campaign for Bolsonaro, the Liberal Celebration candidate for reelection. A few of the posts had been labeled faux by Twitter itself.
Audit Courtroom endorses settlement with Israeli firm
The Federal Courtroom of Auditors endorsed the cooperation settlement between the Military’s Cyber Protection Command and CySource. The contract had been thought of by the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) as a technique to threaten the electoral course of, and tried to halt it.
However, in a choice revealed on the twenty seventh August, the First Chamber of the TCU unanimously dominated that the MPF’s motion was unfounded, then closed and shelved the case. The total textual content of the judgment is on the market on the Courtroom’s website. Click here to obtain the doc.
Deputy Legal professional Common Lucas Rocha Furtado, from the MPF, regardless of having filed the lawsuit with the Courtroom of Auditors, didn’t intervene within the trial, which paved the way in which for it to be shelved. The reporter questioned Furtado’s workplace on the topic, however there was no response.
The case, revealed solely by Brasil de Fato in Could of this 12 months, was thought of by the Courtroom after Deputy Legal professional Common Lucas Rocha Furtado identified that the settlement has indications of misuse of goal and that it could jeopardize the October elections .
Risk to the electoral course of
Within the petition that gave rise to the lawsuit, the MPF argued that Common Héber Garcia Portella, the Military’s Cyber Protection Commander, had already been appointed to the Elections Transparency Fee (CTE) when he signed the contract with the Israeli firm.
“For my part, it’s unacceptable that the construction of the Brazilian Military is used to satisfy a whim of Jair Bolsonaro, who has insistently questioned the safety of digital voting machines and the electoral counting procedures adopted by the Superior Electoral Courtroom”, he argued.
Furtado factors out that Portella typically “has bolstered Jair Bolsonaro’s rhetoric within the sense that the Brazilian voting system comprises dangers and weaknesses that would compromise the equity of the elections”.
Because of this, in keeping with him, the settlement was concluded “not with a view to satisfying a public goal, however moderately in flagrant deviation of goal, with a view to investigating the alleged dangers and weaknesses of the Brazilian voting system”.
In current days, bolsonaristas have used the settlement between the Military and CySource to argue that the army has the technical capability to query the Brazilian electoral course of. One of many posts made by a supporter of the president even went viral on Twitter.
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