Intricate plan to allegedly murder top judge and incoming president and vice-president was central to Jair Bolsonaro coup hopes
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he conspirators used codenames to conceal their identities as they geared up for their mission: to plunge Brazil into chaos by assassinating a celebrity supreme court judge called Alexandre de Moraes.
On an encrypted messaging group, one plotter used the alias Brazil, another Japan and a third Austria.
“Each of them had the name of a team,” Moraes said this week as he denounced the alleged plot to murder him as part of an attempt to destroy South America’s largest democracy.
