Case Evidence · CE-012
Brazilian Army military police inquiry addresses claims of military activity and figure sighting
Verify1997 · Official investigative record (reported in secondary synthesis)
Record
- Date / period
- 1997
- Reported event / document
- Brazilian Army military police inquiry addresses claims of military activity and figure sighting
- Evidence type
- Official investigative record (reported in secondary synthesis)
- Original data accessible?
- Original inquiry not attached to registry
- Verification status
- Inquiry conclusions reported; primary text needed
- Competing explanations / missing data
- Inquiry offered conventional explanation; scope and evidence must be assessed
- Next step
- Obtain and translate original inquiry and exhibits Found: the Army's IPM 18/97 (SRC-V99-139) is online as scans of the military-court file. It investigated the book 'Incidente em Varginha', not a capture: Relatório pp. 134-138 and Solução p. 141 (18 Apr 1997) find no crime and treat the book as fiction; the trucks were on routine maintenance. Translate the Relatório in full; vol. 1 holds the witness depositions. (chunk G, 2026-11-12)
- Source ID
- SRC-016; SRC-V99-139
Why this grade
Verify From Case Evidence's Verification status ("Inquiry conclusions reported; primary text needed"). Grade rules.