As he is outside the country and his whereabouts are considered ‘uncertain’, the former deputy was cited by the Federal Police in a decision published in the Official Gazette of the Union this Monday (16)
The Federal Police (PF) notified former deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro so that he can defend himself in the disciplinary process investigating the abandonment of his position as clerk of the corporation. How the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro is doing outside the country and the PF classifies his current whereabouts as “uncertain and unknown”the quote was made in a decision published in the Official Gazette of the Union this Monday (16). Now he has a 15 day period to manifest.
The corporation warns that, if Eduardo does not present his defense within the deadline, the process will normally continue without your version of the facts — the call “default”.
Eduardo Bolsonaro joined the PF through public tender in 2010. In December last year, after losing his mandate as federal deputy, the corporation summoned him to .
However, the former parliamentarian has been in the United States since early 2025 e did not show up for work in Brazil. Faced with repeated and unjustified absences, the PF opened a Disciplinary Administrative Process (PAD). O job abandonment is considered a serious infraction, and, at the end of the investigation, the maximum punishment foreseen is definitive loss of public office.
During the evidence collection phase, the PF Internal Affairs Department in Rio de Janeiro decided preventively remove Eduardo from office and determined a period of up to five days for him to hand over your firearm and functional license (the badge). The corporation also demanded that he inform a updated address where he could be located.
Complaint to the STF
In addition to the internal process at the PF, at the end of last year, Eduardo Bolsonaro was also denounced by the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) for coercion – use of pressure or intimidation – in the progress of the process that investigate coup plot.
According to investigations, he had acted politically to try to make the United States government to apply sanctions to Brazil. This movement would have occurred during the trial of the action against Jair Bolsonaro.
After the PGR’s complaint, the STF formally opened, in February this year, the . The measure was made official after the Court received the complaint presented by the PGR, beginning the procedural phase in court.
Ministers Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the case, Flávio Dino, Cristiano Zanin and Cármen Lúcia voted to receive the accusation. With the decision, the former parliamentarian became defendant in the case.
*With information from Estadão Conteúdo
