Defendant accused of coup d’état because of the attacks on the three powers and with the passport seized, Leo Indian announced yesterday that he is in. The defense of the cousin of the former president of the former president (PL), then, was summoned by the minister, of the (Supreme Court), to give explanations.
Accused of crimes related to attacks on January 8, such as coup d’état and armed criminal association. Still in January 2023, Minister Alexandre de Moraes ordered the seizure and cancellation of his passports.
although of the country in recent days. He lived in southwestern Paraná, near the Argentina border – Mercosur countries only require identity to cross the border.
In a video released on Wednesday (26), he appears next to a broker convicted by the STF. Gilberto Ackerman has been on the run in Argentina since April 2024, as the UOL showed.
The order of Moraes does not expressly prohibit the defendant from leaving the country, and there is no arrest warrant against him. However, a criminal judge consulted by UOL understands that this ban was implicit when Moraes had his passport seized. In any case, he understands that in the coming days the Supreme Court will order an arrest warrant, when Leo Indian would be considered fugitive or ataugurated.
After disclosure of the case, Moraes ordered the defense to explain within 48 hours. “The lawyers regularly consisting of Leonardo Rodrigues de Jesus are summoned to provide clarification within 48 hours on the news that the defendant would have evaded from the country.”
Leo Indian’s defense told UOL that he can only comment on the case at the end of the day. In the case, his lawyers denied all the crimes pointed out in the complaint of the PGR (Attorney General’s Office). They maintain that the defendant “did not fund or sponsored” the attacks on a coup d’état, as shown the breach of bank secrecy of the president’s nephew.
“The accused, Leonardo Rodrigues de Jesus, on January 8, 2023, did not enter the vandalized public buildings and, therefore, did not vandalize them,” said his lawyers, Rafael Castro Alves and Clarice Pereira.
The PGR maintains that Leo Indian had a criminal intention to participate in the movements. He himself released a photograph of hers in which he appears on the National Congress ramp outside. For example, the prosecutor reports conversations of him with interlocutors defending a bomb in the Supreme.
