'Moro, o Valeixo sai nessa semana. Isso está decidido', escreveu Bolsonaro

A WhatsApp message from Bolsonaro to Moro on April 22, 2020, 6:26 a.m., reproduced by Estado de S. Paulo from the phone Moro handed to the PF, said that Valeixo's departure was decided for that week; Moro replied at 6:37 a.m. asking for a personal conversation.

Excerpt: “Moro, o Valeixo sai nessa semana. Isto está decidido.”

Source: 'Moro, o Valeixo sai nessa semana. Isso está decidido', escreveu Bolsonaro — Poder360, May 23, 2020 · paragraphs 1 to 5 · open original ↗

News report · full text examined · accessed on Oct. 24, 2026

Limitations: Images of the messages not examined; text as per the newspaper's reproduction, cited by Poder360. Bolsonaro did not contest the authenticity in the sources read (we did not locate any contestation).

Valeixo's dismissal was published in the Official Gazette of April 24, 2020 as if it were 'at his own request' and, in the late afternoon, republished in an extra edition without that justification.

Source: 'Moro, o Valeixo sai nessa semana. Isso está decidido', escreveu Bolsonaro — Poder360, May 23, 2020 · section 'Valeixo's dismissal' · open original ↗

News report · full text examined · accessed on Oct. 24, 2026

Limitations: Editions of the Official Gazette (DOU) not consulted. The expression 'extra edition' and the absence of the justification do not appear in the Jornal de Brasília article (May 25, 2020), which confirms only the republication without Moro's signature (project audit).