The Supreme Court Minister Alexandre de Moraes requested the extradition of his former advisor Eduardo Tagliaferro, who lives in Italy and is accused of four crimes by PGR (Attorney General’s Office). The request is already being processed in the Ministries of Justice and Foreign Affairs so that there is contact with the Italian authorities.
The request of extradition was formalized by Moraes earlier this week, according to a person along with the negotiations informed the report. Rather, therefore, the Attorney General, Paulo Gonet, report Tagliaferro.
The former advisor became after in August last year that the Supreme Moraes Office ordered, by messages and unofficially, the production of reports by the TSE to support decisions of the minister himself against pockets in 2022.
The defendant’s defense said he saw with indignation “this persecution for truths being denounced”.
“It’s a fire in the Amazon, not just a smoke curtain, to try to hide the abuses and illegalities object of Vaza Toga I and II, not to mention the fear of what more can come,” says the defense.
“Vaza Toga” is how the leaks of messages from magistrates were known, in an allusion to “Learning Jato”, a series of reports that exposed dialogues between members of Operation Lava Jato and helped accused in those cases to have legal victories.
On Friday (22),: violation of functional confidentiality, coercion in the course of the process, obstruction of investigation and attempted abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law. He had been. O is Moraes himself.
When he became a target of investigation, the former advisor was confidential of his broken cell phone. Based on messages from his phone, the PF stated that he warned an interlocutor who had talked to the Sheet and leaked his dialogues from the period in which he acted in the TSE office.
At the time of the indictment, the former advisor denied having committed any irregularity. His defense said that “he categorically reiterates that he was not responsible for the alleged leak.”
Tagliaferro became a known name in the middle of a scholarship for exposing messages related to Moraes, a minister responsible for the lawsuits against former President Jair Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro’s allies claim that Moraes is a partial judge who pursues the former president, hence the popularity of Tagliaferro’s statements in this group.
PGR states that Tagliaferro “revealed confidential information that obtained due to the position held, in order to obstruct investigations and favor self -and -of -the -way interest.”
The former advisor to Moraes has left Brazil and currently lives in Italy ,. For the Attorney’s Office, the country’s departure demonstrates his alignment with the criminal organization responsible for undemocratic acts.
“The recent public announcement (30.07.2025), in a foreign state, of the intention to reveal new confidential functional information, including launching a campaign to collect resources to finance its criminal intent, meets the purpose of the criminal organization to try to prevent and restrict the free exercise of the judiciary,” is in the complaint.
“It is clear to adhere to the objective of inciting new undemocratic acts and causing the dissemination of fake news against the Supreme Court,” he adds.
A Sheet He had access to more than six gigabytes of messages and files exchanged via WhatsApp by minister assistants – as he was Tagliaferro.
At the time, the Moraes Office said in a statement that all the procedures reported in the report were “regular officers and are properly documented in the inquiries and investigations ongoing in the full participation of the Attorney General’s Office.”
