The Federal Police (PF) informed, in a letter sent to the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes, that one of General Augusto Heleno’s passports had not been delivered to the corporation. The military’s defense disputes the information and states that the document had already been collected in searches carried out at the general’s addresses in February 2024.
According to the PF, all of the general’s passports are canceled or suspended in the National Passport System (SINPA). Even so, one of them is not among the documents listed in the submission form for material sent to the STF.
In the letter, the corporation states that the passport does not appear as seized, despite being canceled in the system. The defense maintains that there are no pending issues and that all the material was delivered at the time of the investigation.
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In the petition sent to the Supreme Court, General Augusto Heleno’s defense stated that the questioned passport was handed over to the Federal Police in compliance with the search and seizure warrant that marked the launch of Operation Tempus Veritatis. According to lawyers, there is documentary evidence attached to the files and available in the system shared by the PF itself.
“Once again, the good faith of the defendant is demonstrated, as he promptly handed over to the police authority, during the search and seizure of his residence, his only passport that was within its validity period,” stated the lawyers.
Convicted in the investigation that investigates the coup plot, Heleno is under house arrest using an electronic ankle bracelet, due to a medical report. The general is subject to the measures imposed by the Federal Supreme Court and may return to the closed regime if he fails to comply with the rules established by court decision.
