The First Panel of the (Supreme Federal Court) scheduled the start of the trial against the federal deputy (PL-SP) for November 14th for his actions in blocking the proceedings against the former president (PL).
The analysis will be carried out in the virtual plenary of the Supreme Court, scheduled to end on November 25th. If the complaint is received, Eduardo will become a defendant.
Eduardo Bolsonaro and journalist Paulo Figueiredo were (Attorney General’s Office) accused of the crime of coercion. According to the agency, the duo worked together in the USA to obtain sanctions against Brazilian authorities with the aim of putting pressure on Brazilian justice.
The case against the two was disbanded, and the trial against Figueiredo should only take place next year.
In the evidence highlighted in the complaint, there are public statements from both on their social networks, in addition to data extracted from cell phones seized in an operation authorized by the Supreme Court.
The piece states that, from moments close to the receipt of the complaint against Jair Bolsonaro for the coup plot, Eduardo and Figueiredo began to articulate successive and continued actions to intervene in the criminal process.
“The purpose was to free Jair Bolsonaro, and also Paulo Figueiredo himself, from criminal conviction for the crimes that led to the opening of criminal proceedings”, says Gonet. Figueiredo is a defendant in one of the lawsuits regarding the attempted coup d’état after Lula’s (PT) victory in the 2022 elections, but has not yet been tried.
“This, however, does not distort the alleged crime, given the formal nature of the crime, which does not depend on the naturalistic result. The simple threat against the judge of the case is enough to define the type.”
“The threats were reiterated several times, on different occasions”, adds Gonet. “There is a context that links them in a structured purpose for the same purpose. The facts reveal criminal continuity.”
Gonet claims that Eduardo and Figueiredo tried to exploit the relationship they maintain with members of the American government and Donald Trump’s advisors and advisors, and that they used this network of contacts to constrain the Supreme Court’s actions.
They induced, says the accusatory piece, “the adoption of retaliatory measures by the U.S. government
against Brazil and against Brazilian authorities, in order to compel the Supreme Court to close the cases without convictions, especially against Jair Bolsonaro”.
This pressure also had the objective of getting the National Congress to approve an amnesty project that covered Bolsonaro, says Gonet.
“Those accused threatened the judicial authorities and other Powers with the promise that they would obtain sanctions from North American authorities willing to hinder and ruin their civil lives, even in Brazil, if the criminal process did not have the outcome they wanted or if the amnesty —necessarily extended and primarily to Jair Bolsonaro— was not guided and achieved in the National Congress.”
In a joint note released after the complaint, Eduardo and Figueiredo said that the fact that the complaint was presented to the Supreme Court shortly after and Brazilian authorities “evidences the ongoing political persecution”. They still say that the accusation is “fake” and call Paulo Gonet’s team at the PGR “Moraes’ lackeys”.
