The Federal Police (PF) arrested former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) on Saturday morning (22/11) in Brasilia, on the order of STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes.
According to the article, Moraes ordered Bolsonaro’s pretrial detention, before he serves the sentence imposed on the former president in the investigation into the coup.
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The Director General of the National Front, André Rodriguez, and lawyer Celso Velarde, who works in the defense of the former president in the coup plot, confirmed the arrest.
According to Andre Rodriguez, Bolsonaro has been transferred to the Regional Control Authority of the Federal Police, located in the Southern Police Sector, in Brasilia.
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Bolsonaro has already been under house arrest since the beginning of August. But the arrest is not related to the investigation into the coup, but rather to another investigation.
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