The president of the Instituto Voto Legal, Carlos César Moretzsohn Rocha, one of those executed this Saturday (27) by the PF, was not found by PF agents and was considered a fugitive.
PF agents were at his address in São Paulo, but did not find him there.
Rocha was one of the defendants in the so-called “nucleus 4” of the coup plot investigated by the (Supreme Federal Court), related to attempts to question the electoral result and spread disinformation about the 2022 electronic voting machines.
According to the (Attorney General’s Office) and the STF, he produced and published a technical report that served as the basis for actions that sought to annul votes, actions that were part of the scheme to attack the polls and the electoral process.
In October, the First Panel of the STF sentenced him to 7 years and 6 months in prison for armed criminal organization and attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law in the context of this case.
Rocha and his lawyers maintained that the work of the Instituto Voto Legal was of a technical and audit nature, with no political intention to delegitimize the electronic voting machines, and that the report did not claim fraud, only made technical observations. The arguments, however, were not convincing.
Carlos César Moretzsohn Rocha was one of the ten targets of house arrest carried out by the PF. The order was executed this Saturday morning in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Espírito Santo, Paraná, Goiás, Bahia, Tocantins and the Federal District, by order of Minister Alexandre de Moraes (STF).
The list of ten targets involves former members of the Army. In addition to Rocha, the other names are: Ailton Gonçalves Moraes Barros, former Army major; Ângelo Denicoli, Army reserve major; Bernardo Romão Corrêa Netto, Army colonel; Fabrício Moreira de Bastos, Army colonel; Filipe Martins, former advisor for international affairs.
Also targeted are Giancarlo Rodrigues, Army sub-lieutenant; Guilherme Marques Almeida, Army lieutenant colonel; Marília Alencar, former director of Intelligence at the Ministry of Justice; and Sérgio Ricardo Cavaliere de Medeiros, lieutenant colonel of the Army.
Alexandre de Moraes’ decision to request the house arrest of those mentioned comes one day after the escape of the former director of the Federal Highway Police.
