The former ministers of () and were arrested this Tuesday (25) to begin serving the sentence to which they were sentenced by the (Supreme Federal Court) in the trial of the coup plot.
Reserve generals, they were taken to the Planalto Military Command, where they will be in facilities similar to the one where Bolsonaro has been held since Saturday (22) at the Federal Police Superintendency of the Federal District, according to what the Sheet found out.
Bolsonaro and the former minister are already serving preventive detention. Another of the defendants, the deputy (PL-RJ), fled to the United States.
This Tuesday, the STF certified the so-called final and unappealable decision, that is, the conclusion of the process relating to Bolsonaro, Ramagem and the former Minister of Justice.
In September, they were armed criminal organization, abolition of the democratic rule of law, qualified damage to public property and deterioration of listed property.
The lieutenant colonel, in turn, was the first to begin serving his sentence. He removed his electronic ankle bracelet during a hearing at the Supreme Court on the 3rd. Formerly Bolsonaro’s assistant, the soldier began serving his final sentence of two years in prison for participating in the coup plot.
Everyone, according to the Supreme Court, would have participated in a coup plot to keep Bolsonaro in power after his defeat to Lula (PT) in the 2022 elections.
The group was considered to have been convicted of the same criminal charges, with sentences ranging from 2 to 27 years, all former occupants of high positions in the former president’s government.
An eight-year ineligibility period was also applied to all those convicted, starting from the end of their sentence. Bolsonaro was already prevented from contesting elections until 2030 due to convictions for abuse of power in the Electoral Court. With this Thursday’s conviction, he is ineligible until 2060.
The former minister of the (Institutional Security Office) was accused of being one of those responsible for building Bolsonaro’s narrative against the .
The complaint says that Heleno, together with the former director of the (Brazilian Intelligence Agency), prepared Bolsonaro’s speech and agreed to illegal espionage in favor of the former president.
The former Minister of Defense faced accusations of having . Second, the general’s actions and omissions do not constitute failure to comply with his legal duty to protect democracy.
Bolsonaro was found guilty of leading the group and was sentenced to 27 years and 3 months in prison. He was arrested by (22) and taken to the corporation’s regional headquarters in Brasília.
