The Immigration and Customs Control Service arrested the impeached former federal deputy (-RJ) this Monday (13), according to .
Close to the Bolsonaro family, Ramagem is considered a fugitive from Brazilian justice, after leaving Brazil and staying in the United States since last year.
The former parliamentarian was sentenced by the (Federal Supreme Court) to 16 years and one month in state prison.
Ramagem was illegally staying in the USA and was arrested by the department responsible for arresting illegal immigrants.
According to the general director of the PF, Andrei Rodrigues, the former director of Abin do Brasil on the border with Guyana.
Ramagem would have moved in September to a luxury condominium in Florida, while recording videos and voting remotely in the Chamber sessions, supported by a medical certificate.
In December, the minister ordered the opening of the extradition process for , convicted of the coup plot.
The definitive condemnation of the central nucleus of the coup plot, of which the parliamentarian was part, was decreed by Moraes on November 25th.
Bolsonaro blogger Allan dos Santos, who also lives in the USA, posted on social media that “no one persecuted by Moraes will be left alone.” “Pray for Ramagem, that everything will be resolved. American laws are very clear and everything will be conducted within American laws”, he stated.
Isabella Menon collaborated in Washington
