Son of Jair Bolsonaro, Eduardo Bolsonaro.
Unanimous decision by four judges, four years and two months in prison. If he returns to Brazil, Eduardo Bolsonaro will be arrested.
The former federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro was sentenced this Tuesday to four years and two months in semi-open prison by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) of Brazil for coercing the Court’s judges.
Moments before, the STF unanimously condemned Eduardo for coercion during the process for acting, in the United States, to interfere in the trial in which his fatherformer president Jair Bolsonaro, was convicted by .
It remained, however, to fix the dosimetry of the penalties for the Bolsonarist politician, who You can still appeal the decision and file motions for clarification.
Moraes: Eduardo lobbied in the USA
The judges of the First Panel of the STF followed the rapporteur’s vote Alexandre de Moraeswho advocated that Eduardo lose his public position as clerk of the Federal Police and become ineligible to run for elections for a period of eight years.
The son of former president Jair Bolsonaro will also have to pay a 50-day fine, totaling 162.1 thousand reais, around 27.4 thousand euros at the current exchange rate.
In his vote, Alexandre de Moraes followed the understanding of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (PGR) of Brazil, which understood that Eduardo acted to embarrass STF judges and interfere in the course of justice.
According to the accusation, Eduardo made public statements and posts on social networks in which he claimed to have collaborated so that the Donald Trump government, from the United States, imposed sanctions on Brazilian authorities.
When casting his vote, Moraes declared that the Bolsonarista politician, who lost his mandate by decision of the Chamber of Deputies last year due to absences, lobbied in the United States.
“It is not the role of a Brazilian federal deputy to lobby abroad against his own country. Even if he were in office and not licensed, even if he were in office, he would not be covered by parliamentary immunity”, declared the rapporteur.
In March 2025, Eduardo announced that he would take a temporary leave of absence from his parliamentary mandate to live in the United States and, at the time, he said that his departure from Brazil would be to “dedicate himself fully and seek the appropriate sanctions against human rights violators”.
Alexandre de Moraes indicated that Eduardo’s threats “came true”, including against Brazil itself, with the increase in tariffs by the US on Brazilian products, “in order to benefit his own father”.
In a press release published on Instagram, in which a photo of him with his mouth tied appears, Eduardo Bolsonaro guarantees that “to date I have not been cited in accordance with the law”.
“I continue to wait for regular notification, by letter rogatory, in the right and known place. This same instrument was issued to another defendant in the case, but it was never complied with to me”, Jair Bolsonaro’s son, on Instagram.
