
Karina Ferreira da Gama, producer of the film Dark Horse about Jair Bolsonaro, says she received pressure from May to September to cooperate with investigators, including offers of legal assistance from Fernando Sarney and warnings from an evangelical pastor and a Piauí journalist.
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Producer Karina Ferreira da Gama is making a film about the life of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro entitled Dark Horse and has denounced having been subjected to pressure to collaborate with justice in recent months.
The producer of the film Dark Horse about the life of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro says she has been pressured in recent months to agree to judicial cooperation. Karina Ferreira da Gama, owner of Go Up Entertainment, recorded her version of events in a seven-page document, signed on September 3 and deposited with a notary the following day.
According to the woman, the first episode dates back to May, when the lawyer Fernando Sarney, son of former president José Sarney, offered her legal assistance, claiming to have relations with the Supreme Court judge Flavio Dino and that he could help her if she agreed to collaborate with the investigators. On August 27, Gama reports, an evangelical pastor friend of hers told her that he had been instructed by people close to the government and judges of the Supreme Court to talk to her about a possible collaboration, warning her of the risk of becoming the target of a police operation.
Finally, on September 3, the producer reported having received a phone call from the journalist Breno Pires, of the magazine Piauí, who told her that he was "servindo de bucha de canhão para o candidate", or that he was acting as a "scapegoat for the candidate", i.e. presumably Flávio Bolsonaro. Gama claims to have rejected the proposals and specifies that he has no evidence to support that Judge Dino was aware of the pressure.
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