The senator’s trip (Somos-ES) has exposed the low effectiveness of passport seizure decisions as a way to prevent investigated from leaving the country.
The measure adopted by the minister of the (Federal Supreme Court) was intended to prevent the senator from traveling abroad while he is.
Marcos do Val, however, embarked in the federal capital to last Tuesday (23) with his diplomatic and underwent all inspections at Brasilia airport without suffering impediments.
A technical note produced by and obtained by the Sheet It shows that at least since 2023 the corporation points to the ineffectiveness of passport physical apprehension as a method to avoid escapes.
The material served as the basis for an order from the Federal Justice Council of February this year. The General Corregedor, Minister Luis Felipe Salomão, suggests that judges choose more effective alternatives to prevent the departure of the national territory.
The technical note is signed by delegate Marcos Renato da Silva Lima, substitute chief of the Passport Division. He highlights three points that make the document seizure a little effective measure.
The first is that Brazil has an agreement with Mercosur that allows free traffic between countries with the identity document alone.
“As agreed between the nations that are part of the bloc it is admissible to use identity (in Brazil the ID) as a travel document. More effective will be the insertion of ‘impediment of departure from the national territory’ in Federal Police databases,” says the document. The measure should not be effective, however, on leaks by dry border.
Lima also considers that the target of the passport seizure measure is not prohibited from requesting a new document from the Federal Police. For the delegate, it would be more effective if, instead of grasping the document, the PF inserted in its database a “impediment of new passport”.
Finally, the note points out that the physical apprehension of the passport is not simple and can “imply technical and procedural difficulties”, such as the custody of the document.
“More effective and practical will be the ‘passport suspension’ in the Federal Police and Foreign Ministry databases. Very simple procedure to implement, and once the passport canceled, the booklet will be worthless to undertake a trip,” he adds.
Minister Solomon signed a ordinance to recommend all the judiciary to seek alternatives to the ineffectiveness of the physical seizure of the passport.
“Guide the magistrates and magistrates to choose, in the case of applying constructive measures aimed at the restriction of the citizen of the national territory, by determining the insertion, in the systems of the Federal Police, the commands of impediment of the national territory, the impediment of new passport and suspension of the passport,” says the text.
Val is investigated for allegedly campaigning against federal police officers who worked on the scammer’s investigation. Minister Alexandre de Moraes determined in August 2024 the seizure of his ordinary and diplomatic passports. The decision was endorsed by the first class of the Supreme Court unanimously in December 2024 and March this year.
Last year, Federal Police officers went to Senator’s house in (ES). From Val, however, he claimed that he was not with his diplomatic passport – the document, according to the senator’s allies version, would be in his office in Brasilia.
The senator made a live on social networks on Thursday (24) and showed his documents in the video. In a petition to the Supreme, the parliamentarian’s defense stated that Moraes “did not expressly ban Senator Marcos Ribeiro do Val from leaving the country, although he decreed the seizure of his passport.”
As a reaction to the senator’s trip, Moraes decided to block the bank accounts and the credit card of the Val and his daughter, according to the defense of the senator.
A Sheet He asked for clarification on the case for the Supreme Court and the Federal Police, but obtained no response.
The Federal Deputy (PL-SP) after being sentenced to ten years in prison for the invasion of CNJ (National Council of Justice) systems. She left the country by car to Argentina and took a plane to the United States.
Zambelli’s case is different from Val’s senator. The Supreme has returned to her passports after almost two years seized. She did not have judicial restrictions on the occasion to leave the country-newly consistent and on the eve of being arrested.
The deputy was considered international fugitive, with the name included in Interpol’s red list, and follows in Italy.
The Supreme Court estimates to have just over 60 requests of still open extradition related to defendants or convicted of attacks on the headquarters of the powers of 8 January.
