The Attorney General of the Republic, denounced on Monday (22) to (Supreme Federal Court) O (-SP) and blogger Paulo Figueiredo on charges of articulating actions in order to intervene in the proceedings of the former president (PL).
According to, the complaint accuses the two of a coercion crime, which “consists in using violence or serious threat, in order to favor self -orient interest, against authority, part, or any other person who works or is called to intervene in judicial, police or administrative proceedings, or in arbitration.”
In the evidence pointed out in the complaint, there are public statements from both on their social networks, as well as data extracted from cell phones seized in operations authorized by the Supreme. Jair Bolsonaro was not denounced.
“This complaint is given the protocol shortly after a conviction by the first class of Jair Bolsonaro’s Federal Supreme Court. The conviction, even though it has not yet become final, reveals that the judges who were convinced of the defendant’s fault,” the PGR said in this Monday’s complaint.
The PGR play states that from times close to the receipt of the complaint against Jair Bolsonaro for the coup plot, Eduardo and Figueiredo began to articulate successive and continued actions to intervene in criminal proceedings.
“The purpose was to rid Jair Bolsonaro, and also Paulo Figueiredo himself, of the criminal conviction for the crimes that led to the opening of criminal proceedings,” said Gonet. Figueiredo is a defendant in one of the actions on the attempted coup d’état after Lula’s (PT) victory in the 2022 elections, but has not yet been tried.
“This, however, does not disregard the imputed crime, given the formal nature of the offense, which does not depend on the naturalistic result. The simple practice of the threat against the process judge is already sufficient for the configuration of the type.”
“The threats have been reiterated several times on different occasions,” adds Gonet. “There is a context that wraps them into a structured purpose for the same end. The picture of the facts reveals criminal continuity.”
In a joint statement, Eduardo Bolsonaro and Paulo Figueiredo said they live in the United States under the jurisdiction of the American Constitution, which says in their first amendment about the right to “petition to the government to correct abuse and injustices.”
“The mere criminalization of the exercise of a constitutional right in another jurisdiction configures a practice of transnational repression against US personons. This is precisely one of the basis of sanctions applied to Alexandre de Moraes for human rights violations, as well as the commercial tariffs imposed on Brazil. Those who adhere to this type of conduct are subject to the same penalties and further deepen the crisis between Brazil and the United States,” they said.
Eduardo and Paulo say that the fact that the complaint was filed to the Supreme soon after new US sanctions against the wife of Moraes and Brazilian authorities “highlights political persecution in cost.”
“This only reinforces what we have been repeatedly affirmed-that the broad, general and unrestricted amnesty is the only way to Brazil. Weed socks will only aggravate the problem,” the accused add.
The pair concluded the note stating that they will only formally comment on the accusations after being communicated from the new complaint by the “competent legal roads.” Neither has a lawyer to act in the case.
Eduardo traveled to the US in March, from where he commands a campaign for the US president, to determine punishments to Brazilian authorities, and have articulated the purpose of freeing his father from prison.
