The minister of the (Federal Supreme Court) released this Wednesday (3) for trial the action in the court in which the former federal deputy (PL-SP) is accused of the crime of coercion in the course of the process and attempt to abolish the Democratic Rule of Law.
It is up to the president of the First Panel, to set a date for analyzing the case.
Now living in the United States, Eduardo by the (Attorney General’s Office) in September 2025 for allegedly acting in the American country to pressure ministers of the (Federal Supreme Court) with the aim of preventing the conviction of the former president (PL).
The former deputy’s defense is carried out by the DPU (Union Public Defender’s Office), as he did not appoint lawyers. In a document to the Supreme Court, the body requests the nullity of the case against Eduardo due to Moraes’ alleged lack of impartiality or, if the request is denied, acquittal due to lack of evidence.
“Here the judge is, at the same time, the main victim of the conduct he is called to judge”, stated the DPU. During the trial that convicted Bolsonaro and others of attempted coup d’état, requests to remove Moraes were rejected by the First Panel.
Furthermore, the defense stated that Eduardo’s conduct was protected by parliamentary immunity and the constitutional right to freedom of expression and declared that the PGR’s complaint “confuses political action with coercive power”.
“The accused does not have, nor has he ever had, decision-making power over the foreign policy of the United States. He is not a member of the North American government. He does not hold public office in that country. Acts of a foreign government are an expression of the sovereignty of another State and do not result from the determination of a Brazilian parliamentarian, even if he occasionally meets with foreign authorities and expresses his political position.”
The DPU also claims that Eduardo Bolsonaro should have been summoned by notice instead of a letter rogatory, “since he was abroad, in a known place”.
Journalist Paulo Figueiredo, who is also a defendant in the coup plot, was denounced along with Eduardo.
The case against the two ended up being disbanded. Case rapporteur, Moraes determined that Eduardo be summoned by notice, on the grounds that he was hindering the progress of the process, while the guidance for Figueiredo, who has lived in the USA for more than ten years, was to notify him in person, through international legal cooperation.
The PGR claims that Eduardo and Figueiredo mobilized contacts in the United States to obtain personal sanctions against STF ministers and economic punishments for Brazil, in a strategy of intimidation. The measures were publicly defended by those reported in interviews, social media and live broadcasts.
The prosecutor’s complaint in November last year. In addition to Alexandre de Moraes and Flávio Dino, they are part of the board and voted in this sense and.
The crime of coercion, to be configured, requires that the action has a serious threat. In his vote, the rapporteur stated that this threat materialized in the “articulation and obtaining of sanctions” by the Donald Trump government, citing the imposition of tariffs against Brazilian products, aea.
“There is relevant evidence that Eduardo Nantes Bolsonaro’s conduct was aimed at creating an institutional and social environment of instability, with the application of increasing sanctions to Brazilian authorities and economic losses to Brazil, as a way of coercing the ministers of the Federal Supreme Court to decide in favor of the defendant Jair Messias Bolsonaro, in total disregard for due legal process,” said Moraes.
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