The Ministry of Justice informed Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), that he has already requested the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to extradite the former director general of the Federal Police, Alexandre Ramagem. The communication was made in response to an electronic message sent by Moraes’ office on December 17.
According to the document, the extradition request was sent to Itamaraty on the same day. The text also states that new information about the case will be passed on to the STF as soon as it becomes available.
Alexandre Ramagem had his mandate declared lost after being definitively sentenced by the STF to 16 years in prison for participating in the attempted coup d’état. The court decision included, among the penalties, the loss of parliamentary mandate. To avoid a new institutional clash with the Supreme Court, the Board of Directors chose to declare the revocation by administrative act, without submitting the case to a plenary vote.
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Ramagem has been in the United States since September and is considered a fugitive from Brazilian justice and has had his diplomatic passport revoked. The suspension of diplomatic passports does not prevent people from staying abroad with a common passport, but it removes benefits associated with diplomatic status.
