The National Police of Paraguay handed over to the Brazilian authorities on the border between Ciudad del Este and Foz de Iguaçu on Friday night. , while trying to board a flight to El Salvador.
Silvinei Vasques headed the PRF during the government of former president Jair Bolsonaro and was sentenced by the Federal Supreme Court ten days ago to 24 years and six months in prison for his participation in the coup plot.
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The former general director of the PRF was arrested 1,300 kilometers from the municipality of São José, in the Metropolitan Region of Florianópolis, where he lived. According to investigations by the Federal Police (PF), Silvinei’s escape plan involved the use of an identity cell and a Paraguayan passport. He broke the electronic ankle bracelet and left his house on Christmas Eve, having rented a vehicle to make the journey, which lasts at least 18 hours.
After Silvinei’s arrest in Paraguay, Minister Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the criminal action against the coup plot in the STF, ordered the preventive detention of Bolsonaro’s former PRF director.
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Security images of Silvinei’s building obtained by the PF show that he was last seen at his address in São José at 7pm on the 24th, Christmas Eve. At that time, he loaded a silver Polo car belonging to a car rental company with bags (“they were not suitcases”, investigators noted) in the trunk. On the passenger seat, he placed bags of food, a toilet mat, a pot and a dog that appeared to be a pitbull breed.
