Bolsonaro running mate probed over plan to deploy special forces in Brazil coup plot

FILE PHOTO: Former Brazil's Defence Minister Walter Souza Braga Netto arrives at a ceremony about the National Policy for Education at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil June 20, 2022. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian police are investigating if a retired general who was far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro's running mate planned to bring Army special forces to the country's capital as part of a plan for a military coup after losing the 2022 election.

General Walter Braga Netto, who had been Bolsonaro's defense minister and chief of staff, discussed preparing the travel and housing for members of a guerilla warfare unit to help foment a coup in Brasilia, according to documents seen by Reuters and two sources with knowledge of the investigation.