The court issued arrest warrants against the 61 Brazilian fugitives who had extradition requests sent by Brazil, according to the Sheet confirmed with interlocutors in the area.
They were sentenced to different sentences due to their participation in the headquarters of the Three Powers.
The decision was made by judge Daniel Rafecas, head of the 3rd Federal Court. The arrest orders were issued and, so far, there are already two Brazilians detained in the country. They will have hearings with Judge Rafecas, who will decide on extradition, and will be able to appeal to the Supreme Court of Justice.
On the last occasion it was questioned about the topic, the government stated, through its spokesman, Manuel Adorni, that the Casa Rosada would only follow court orders with regard to decisions on extradition. Milei is an ally of ().
As the report showed, during this Thursday (14), in La Plata, in the province of Buenos Aires. He was sentenced in Brazil to 17 years in prison. The second arrest took place on Friday afternoon (15).
There was also an arrest warrant against Alessandra Faria Rondon, Oliveira’s wife, but she managed to leave the place before being captured. She was sentenced to the same sentence as her husband.
According to information obtained by the report through the law on access to local information, by mid-October 185 Brazilians had requested refuge in Argentina. For comparison purposes, in 2023 there were only three. The majority (109) are men, and the largest share of requests occurred in the month of May (47).
Oliveira was detained when he appeared, in La Plata, at a unit of the General Department of Migrations to renew his precarious status, a temporary migration document in the country that citizens receive while awaiting analysis of their asylum request.
The detainees will remain in prison until a hearing to evaluate their extradition is held, and no dates have yet been set. Judge Rafecas is also a professor at the UBA Faculty of Law, the University of Buenos Aires, the most prestigious in the country. He works in the area of human rights.
The fugitives believed that the extradition requests would not affect their stay in Argentina because they were requesting refuge in the country. In theory, one must wait until the asylum request is evaluated, which could take years, before extradition.
For the local courts, however, this is just another argument that will only be considered in future hearings and that will probably be put on the table by public defenders who work on Brazilian cases. With the arrest warrant issued against them, any police unit in the country can detain them.
A month ago, a change in Argentine regulations caught our attention. In a decree published by Javier Milei’s government, it was established that refuge will not be extended to anyone who is denounced or convicted in their country of origin “for a serious crime”.
The Argentine government detailed that it would be “terrorist activities, serious violations of human rights or any action that compromises international peace and security.” When questioned at the time, the fugitives said they were not afraid, believing that the accusations against them were of a political nature, and not common crimes.
There was also an affinity with the figure of Milei, Bolsonaro’s ally, even though his government indicated that the decision on refuge and extradition did not fall to the Executive, but rather, respectively, to the National Refugee Commission and the Justice Department.
Milei is in , where she had some meetings with the future occupant of the White House, . He should travel to Brazil this Sunday (17), to participate in the summit in Rio de Janeiro. His presence is awaited with some fear, given that the Argentine delegation has already held debates at the multilateral level.
Some of the fugitives in Argentina kept a low profile. Others, however, continue with posts on social media and public activities, even organizing small events in the country.
