Operation World Cup: the murder plot at the heart of Brazil’s trial of the century from the Guardian Tom Phillips in Brasília and Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro

Intricate plan to murder top judge, president- and vice-president elect was central to Jair Bolsonaro coup hopes

The conspirators used codenames to conceal their identities as they prepared 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.

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