Operation World Cup: the murder plot at the heart of Brazil’s trial of the century

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

The conspirators used codenames to conceal their identities as they geared up 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.