The right to serve the penalty for and laundering money in humanitarian house arrest, obtained by on Thursday (1st), imposes restrictions on the circulation of the former president, but ensures that he can enjoy a series of comforts available in his home.
Although there is a prohibition to receive visits, the decision of the Minister of (Supreme Federal Court) who changed the Collor regime opened exceptions to family, doctors and lawyers constituted in the case, which may visit it. Moraes also opened the possibility of visits from other people, upon authorization from the Supreme Court.
The decision does not restrict the use of telephone or internet, which was interpreted by experts heard by the Sheet as an authorization for the former president to use these means at home.
On the other hand, Collor can only leave his apartment for health reasons in previously informed medical appointments. If you have to go out for an emergency, you will have 48 hours to provide information about what happened.
Your passport has been suspended and making a new document, prohibited. It is being monitored by an electronic anklet.
As former president, Collor has a legal right to keep two official cars and up to eight advisors: four for support and security, two personal advisors and two drivers. Everything is funded by the Presidency of the Republic. Between 2018 and 2019, even arrested in Curitiba, (PT).
According to data from 2019, the eight advisors working for Collor cost R $ 57,000 per month (R $ 94 thousand today, in the correction for inflation).
Seven of them remain crowded in the presidency in 2025, under the monthly costs of R $ 116 thousand. THE Sheet He identified, through airline tickets and publications in the Official Gazette, that at least four still work for Collor. Three are reserve military personnel and, in addition to the salaries of advisers, receive pensions that total R $ 61,2 thousand per month.
Collor had entered the Baldomero Cavalcanti de Oliveira prison on the last 25th, to serve a sentence of eight years and ten months in prison. He obtained the progression to the humanitarian home regime six days later, after the request of lawyer Marcelo Bessa.
Bessa attached examinations and medical reports at the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital in São Paulo, between March and November 2022, as evidence that the former president has Parkinson’s disease, severe sleep apnea and bipolar affective disorder.
Moraes answered the request despite a report signed by the doctor Kênia Andrade, from the prison leadership, to point out that “the conditions referred to by the patient are subject to treatment and follow -up within the Alagoas prison system.” In the exam in the chain, Collor had pressure of 12 by 8, 97% oxygen saturation and heart rate of 50 beats per minute – considered normal.
The last report of the National Secretariat of Criminal Policies, the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, of December, indicated that 235,000 people would serve a sentence in home regime in the country, almost half without electronic monitoring.
Although the document does not mention how many regime received for humanitarian reasons, such as Collor, the text reports that only 38 were under house arrest as a safety measure for outpatient treatment.
“House arrest, when granted under these conditions [a um preso condenado em regime fechado]is an exceptionality. Really exceptional, “says retired criminal lawyer and federal judge Cecilia Mello.
“Usually, it is only granted in two hypotheses: when the person has such a severe health condition that the prison system cannot take care of taking care of them or those conditions of mothers who have not committed violent crimes and have minor children [de 18 anos].”
She points out that, besides being a benefit to the prisoner, this exceptional regime is also a guarantee for the state. “If he has a serious problem within the system due to lack of assistance, there may be a state accountability,” he says.
Mello points out that arrested in this regime must be subjected to the same restrictions as detainees in closed regime. “The behavior of the convict has to be very similar to the one he would have in the prison system. When you prohibit visits that are not registered, that do not have a day and time, it is because if you are adjusting a benefit granted for health reasons to a closed sentence.”
However, the use of all the comforts in the home, as a media, is free. “If the restriction has not been expressed, he can use everything he has indoors,” he says.
“If there is any abuse and this is detected, there may be any specific restrictions. But at first everything that is not listed may be done, used, executed within the home environment.”
The question, she says, is that “if there is misuse, there may even be a regression – cause a return to the closed regime.”
