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Brazil’s intelligence agency was illegally weaponised during Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right administration to monitor and harass some of the country’s most important politicians, journalists, judges and environmental officials, federal police have alleged.

Five people were arrested on Thursday as part of a long-running investigation into suspicions that during Bolsonaro’s 2019-22 government the Agência Brasileira de Inteligência (Abin) was used to spy on the president’s political foes.

Federal police claimed that under the watch of Bolsonaro’s spy chief, Alexandre Ramagem, a “criminal organisation of high offensive capability” was set up within Abin.

Another message, from 2022, shows a police officer sending an alleged member of the group information about three environmental protection officials deemed to be “causing trouble for the administration”.

In a third, even more shocking exchange, the suspect and a military official rage against supreme court judge Alexandre de Moraes, who was credited with helping stave off a rightwing campaign to overthrow Brazil’s democratic system that culminated in the January 2023 attacks in Brasília.

Randolfe Rodrigues, who was the vice-president of a congressional inquiry into the Bolsonaro administration’s highly controversial handling of a Covid outbreak which claimed more than 700,000 lives, called the revelations “tragic”.

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