All cameras now turn to the figures of Brazilian law. In the trial of the coup plot, which begins on Tuesday (2), some of the most powerful defenders in the country, from offices hired by the eight defendants of the crucial nucleus, will divide the protagonism of television broadcasts with the court ministers.
Each of them will have about an hour to present their defense arguments for the last time. Lawyers’ trajectories, in any case, could not be more surprising. Next, read the profiles of the defenders who will be present at the trial of the coup plot.
Celso Vilardi
Main lawyer, he is a professor of criminal law at FGV. It became known for acting in cases of national repercussion., In the process of the monthly, and the annulling the inquiry of Operation Sand Castle.
He also worked for Andrade Gutierrez in Lava Jato and businessman Eike Batista. In the past, he criticized the invasion of the three powers on January 8, 2023, and praised Federal Police investigations into the attempted coup.
In the pandemic, he signed a manifesto against Bolsonaro, his inaction to contain the spread of the virus and the successive attacks on institutions. It also endorsed, in 2022, A, read in an act at the Largo de São Francisco Law School.
Paulo Amador da Cunha Bueno
Professor at PUC-SP, is another locket that makes up Bolsonaro’s legal team., Where seven professionals work. One of the members is model and actress Angelita Feijó, intern and current woman of the lawyer.
Bueno has a sympathy for the monarchy – it is a profile photo on WhatsApp is the Brazilian Empire flag -, passed the São Paulo Reserve Officers Preparation Center (CPOR) and, from 2011 to 2013. It also competed in some shooting championships.
José Luis Oliveira Lima
Lawyer of former Defense Minister Walter Braga Netto, former Lula Minister, in the monthly. In Lava Jato, he was hired. He has worked for, also investigated by Lava Jato,, convicted of rape of patients, defendant on charges of harassment.
For more than once published articles in Sheet with criticism of Bolsonaro. In one of them. Braga Netto has been in custody since December, on charges of trying to disturb the plot investigations.
Cézar Bitencourt
Author of extensive work on criminal law works for. It was a voice against the award -winning institute, especially during Lava Jato, and even classified Lula’s arrest as illegal.
But in the case of the coup plot, he signed a collaboration agreement by Cid with the court, aiming at reducing the sentence. Bitencourt has worked, one of the investigated in the Banestado case. He has also worked for, which was caught receiving a suitcase with R $ 500 thousand.
Other towers
Acts in the defense of the, accused of having left the troops available to the coup. His work as a lawyer develops mainly in cases of agrarian companies. Torres is better known, however, for having the mandate of Senator revoked in 2012, due to his involvement with Contraventor Carlinhos Cachoeira, pivot of the slot hunting mafia. Torres has always denied any connection with waterfall.
They showed that Torres called for money from the waterfall, whom he leaked information from official meetings. The lawyer fulfilled three terms in the Senate. Earlier, he was a prosecutor and secretary of public security in Goiás during the Marconi Perillo government (PSDB), from 1999 to 2002.
Matheus Mayer Milanez
The name of the lawyer, former chief minister of GSI (Institutional Security Office) in the Bolsonaro government, was known throughout the internet in June, during the interrogation of his client in.
In a moment of relaxation, the minister said that he would also like to go home and did not grant the request. “Let’s see if we end tomorrow, then you have Wednesday to take a beautiful brunch,” said the minister. On his Instagram page, he has already criticized decisions of the scammer’s rapporteur.
EUMAR NOVACKI
Former military police officer, he began to practice after leaving his uniform. It advocates for former Justice Minister Anderson Torres. It was at the home of Torres that the Federal Police found one of the coup draft versions. In 2019, he was secretary of chief state of the Civil House of the Federal District, in the Ibaneis Rocha government (MDB). As a lawyer, it concentrates acting in agribusiness cases.
In May, the minister said he would not allow the lawyer to turn the court into a circus. Novacki had asked Freire Gomes four times as a rhetorical strategy.
Andrew Farias
Specializing in Military Justice Actions, he joined, as a lawyer, the Jury Court that acquitted nine military personnel accused of. Defends former Minister of Defense Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, with whom he altered his statement to the Supreme Court.
Farias asked Nogueira about what was discussed at a meeting with commanders of the Armed Forces to decree the law and order warranty operation. Your client was annoyed. “Are you going to ask me from a meeting, man?” Asked Nogueira, army general. “Andrew, I already answered all this to the noble president, okay?” Moraes laughed.
Paulo Renato Cintra
Defends the. Discreet, acts on criminal and administrative misconduct. Specializing in Electoral Law, he was an advisor to the Attorney General’s Office, from 2006 to 2023. He left office before the inauguration of the current Attorney General, Paulo Gonet.
