former advisor to international presidential matters (), is marked by contradictory versions and has been used by the former president’s defense and allies to contest the coup plot process in the (Federal Supreme Court).
The former advisor spent six months in pre-trial detention decreed by the Supreme Court, based on elements pointed out by and (Attorney General’s Office) and always contested by his defense.
Martins is now a defendant in the Supreme Court on charges of coup, violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, armed criminal organization, qualified damage and deterioration of listed heritage. He makes up what PGR called core 2 of the coup plot, responsible for the management of action.
Martins was arrested at the beginning of last year after the PF identified that his name was on the passenger list that would embark on abroad in the presidential entourage. The document was found in Mauro Cid’s media as narrates the corporation’s report.
Based on this, at first, Moraes decreed the arrest. “There was no exit records of the former advisor to migratory control, which may indicate that he has evaded the country to steal himself from any criminal liability,” says the decision of the STF minister.
“Considering that the location of the investigated is at this uncertain moment, it is necessary to decree the precautionary arrest as a way to ensure the application of criminal law and prevent the investigated deliberately act to destroy evidence capable of clarifying the circumstances of the investigated facts.”
Last Monday (14), Lieutenant Colonel and former Bolsonaro orders told the Supreme Court that Martins was not on the final passenger list of the flight that took the former president at the end of 2022.
Martins’s defense for months maintains that he did not embark with Bolsonaro to escape the country. “Filipe did not leave Brazil. They used a provisional list to say he left. This is an illegal prison,” says Jeffrey Chiquini, Martins’s lawyer, who says the PF had the means to access the definitive.
“In truth, [o ministro] Alexandre de Moraes was misleading by the delegate [da PF]by a provisional list. “
Bolsonarists have used the narrative around Martins to reinforce the thesis that his arrest was unfair and contest the coup plot process in the Supreme Court. Allies of the former president intensified the publications in which they accuse the Supreme and the PF after Cid’s speech.
There is also criticism of the foundation of preventive and its duration, maintained for about six months.
The disputes follow a line similar to that raised in, when the then judge was accused of expanding the use of arrests to press suspects to enter into agreements.
The PGR gave a favorable opinion to the measure, but then changed its position.
As showed, based on response provided via LAI (Access to Information), the Attorney’s Office concluded that the evidence of the defense was enough to demonstrate that he was not on the plane and did not travel to Orlando.
Shortly thereafter, PF researchers located at the US Department of Internal Security Department database, a registration of Martins’ entry into the country at the end of 2022. Moraes maintained preventive arrest.
The defense presented a passage from him to Curitiba to reverse the situation, where he would have gone while the presidential entourage was traveling to the US, and attached to the file the geolocation data of his cell phone, indicating that he was in Brazil from the end of 2022 until early January.
According to Chiquini, defender of Martins in the STF, the registration data in the United States linked to the former advisor later disappeared. and is being analyzed in a lawsuit still in the instructional phase.
Asked by email, the PF did not comment. Also asked by email from the report, PGR said the arguments on the subject are already detailed in the pieces sent to the Supreme.
In August, Moraes revoked the preventive of Martins on the grounds that although it was “a reasonable, proportional and appropriate measure to guarantee the proper probative harvest” at that time, the PF steps pointed out that it was no longer necessary.
The Supreme Court also did not speak when sought by the Sheet This week.
In the report that indicated Martins, the PF does not retreat. He says he forged a possible departure from Brazil at the end of 2022, with the objective of making possible location and consequent application of criminal law.
