O president of the Voto Legal Institute, Carlos César Moretzsohn Rocha, 72 years old, is an electronic engineer graduated from the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA). After the 2022 presidential elections, he was hired by the Liberal Party (PL) to carry out studies to base the action in which the party challenged the result of the first round of elections in the Superior Electoral Court (TSE). In the action, disinformation was used to suggest fraud in electronic voting.
At the time, Carlos was sentenced to 7 years and six months in prison – in addition to a fine of R$30 million – for the coup plot that occurred during the government of former president Jair Bolsonaro, he was the target of a house arrest warrant issued by the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes in December 2025.
According to the Federal Police (PF), at the time, agents went to the institute’s president’s residential building, in São Paulo, and discovered that he no longer lived there. When contacting the lawyers, the police officers were informed that the president refused to provide the new address to the defense.
The PF discovered that he had left the national territory on September 26, 2025, heading to the United Kingdom. Currently he still is on the run in British territory.
Moraes extradition request
Minister Alexandre de Moraes asked, on Monday (9), the extradition of Carlos Rocha from the United Kingdom where he fled. Given his escape, the STF minister decreed preventive detention and initiated international procedures to bring him back to Brazil.
To accept the request, the British authorities demanded from Brazil a complementary document called “Guarantee Model”, which presents the conditions of the prison where the Brazilian will be detained if extradited. Moraes confirmed that he sent all the necessary information.
In a letter sent to the STF on Thursday (12), the Ministry of Justice responded to Moraes confirming that the entire additional documentation has already been sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Now, it is up to Itamaraty to make official diplomatic contact with the United Kingdom government to try to guarantee Carlos Cézar’s return to Brazil.
*With information from Agência Brasil
