The decision of the (Federal Supreme Court) is dealt with by court ministers as a precedent for the eventual conviction of another former occupant of the Dawn Palace: ().
Court members heard by Sheetas ministers and advisors, they point out that the rejection of Collor’s second appeal against the conviction, considered a delayed, followed a jurisprudence created in the case of the monthly.
This was a way of preventing defenses from launching funds similar to those already rejected by the court as a way to postpone the beginning of serving the sentence.
The reinforcement of jurisprudence in the Collor case is evaluated in the Supreme as an essay for the accused by 2022. The argument is that the precedent can be used to avoid the extension of criminal actions even after any conviction.
The Supreme Court also signals Collor to send a special cell in a common prison the possibility of Bolsonaro not being in a military unit or superintendence of the case convicted by the coup plot.
Bolsonaro’s possible different arrest is a concern in the army. about a possible detention of the former president in a military unit.
Bolsonaro is a retired army captain and, as former President of the Republic, was commander-in-chief of 2019 to 2022.
Brazilian law provides for special arrest as a benefit for provisional arrests. In any definitive conviction, the former president would lose the law, besides being expelled from the army, in a parallel process in the Military Justice.
The main doubt about Collor’s situation is whether the minister will grant the right to house arrest. His defense argues that the former president is elderly (75 years), has three diseases (Parkinson, bipolar disorder and severe sleep apnea) and needs special treatment, with continuous use medicines and frequent visits to the doctor.
In custody hearing, however, Collor denied having diseases and using medicines. Moraes requested a demonstration of the Attorney General, Paulo Gonet, on the request for house arrest.
The expectation in the Supreme is that the decision of Moraes also create a precedent for a possible arrest of Bolsonaro. The former president is 70 years old and faces sequelae arising from the stab she suffered in the 2018 election campaign.
Bolsonaro was submitted last day 13 to sixth stomach surgery and is hospitalized in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) at DF Star Hospital in Brasilia.
A Supreme Minister also stressed that Collor is the first former president arrested by decision of the Supreme Court since redemocratization. The other two arrested ex-mandates, Lula and Michel Temer, responded to processes in lower instances.
As Sheet It showed, the Supreme Court intends to judge Bolsonaro and seven others accused of joining the central core of the coup plot later this year to avoid contamination of the process with the 2026 electoral calendar.
The internal forecasts are definitive judgment of the case in October this year, with the first class of the Supreme devoted in the months following the analysis of resources. The other nuclei reported by PGR must have their processes finished later.
Collor was convicted by the Supreme Court for eight years and ten months in prison. The decision is from May 2023. He was accused by the PGR of receiving bribes from a Distribuidora Scheme, Petrobras’ subsidiary company, in a criminal action derived from.
Proofs found in the donor’s office in addition to testimonials from employees of the operation, were used as evidence in the action.
The complaint was filed by the PGR (Attorney General of the Republic) in August 2015. To ensure the signing of state-owned contracts with construction company UTC, the former president influenced, according to the conviction, the command and board of the company BR Distribuidora from 2010 to 2014, which encompasses the petist management of Lula and Dilma Rousseff. In return, Collor would have received $ 20 million.
Collor’s first appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court by 6 votes to 4 in November 2024. The former president’s lawyers said the Supreme Court was wrong by setting the sentence for passive corruption in four years and four months and asked for a reduction in time.
The goal was to reduce the penalty for corruption, which would make the crime prescribe. In this scenario, Collor would have to comply only the conviction for money laundering, stipulated in four years and six months, in semi -open regime.
Even with the rejection of the appeal, Collor’s defense presented new embargoes to the Supreme on the same theme. Moraes considered the new request as a delayed and decided to terminate the criminal action against the former president, with the beginning of the execution of the sentence.
Collor’s defense said on Thursday (24) had received “with surprise and concern the decision” that denied the appeal. The lawyers held the Supreme Court that the accusations are based only on award -winning allegations and that there would be no evidence.
