Former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro should face criminal charges for plotting a coup d’etat in response to his 2022 election defeat, according to a draft congressional report on Brazil’s January 8 riots.

The report by Senator Eliziane Gama followed months of hearings by a committee investigating the uprising in Brasilia. It proposed charges against Bolsonaro including the violent overthrow of democratic rule, and a slew of other charges against dozens of people citing “extensive documentation,” including bank statements, phone records and messages.

Bolsonaro, who lost his re-election bid, has denied any involvement in the rioting, which took place after he had quietly left the country to stay in Florida while refusing to attend the inauguration of incoming President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

A full panel of 32 lawmakers are scheduled to vote on the inquiry report on Wednesday and are seen as likely to adopt the measure, which would serve as a recommendation to prosecutors.

On January 8, one week after Lula took office, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential palace, refusing to accept his election defeat. They bypassed security barricades, climbed on roofs, smashed windows and invaded the public buildings.

Many observers at the time speculated that the riot was a co-ordinated effort to oust Lula from office.

“Jair Bolsonaro and everyone around him knew about this,” Gama said as she read out her 1100 page-long report in Senate.

“They understood the violence and the scope of the demonstrations. They frequented the same groups on social media. They encouraged and fed rebellion and dissatisfaction. They deliberately added more fuel to the fire they themselves had lit.”

Bolsonaro had long stoked belief among his hardcore supporters that the nation’s electronic voting system was prone to fraud, though he never presented any evidence.

In one of the inquiry’s most-watched hearings, a Brazilian hacker claimed that Bolsonaro, then still in power, had asked him to infiltrate the country’s electronic voting system to expose its alleged weaknesses ahead of the October 30, 2022 presidential election.

Bolsonaro acknowledged he and the hacker spoke, but denies the allegation that he requested the hack.

Bolsonaro “not only instrumentalised public bodies, institutions and agents, but also exploited the vulnerability and hope of thousands of people,” the draft read.

The committee, which began working in May, collected statements from 20 people and received more than 900 documents from investigative bodies, according to newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo.

Federal police separately have already been investigating Bolsonaro’s possible role in inciting the January 8 uprising.