Minister Alexandre de Moraesfrom Supreme Federal Court (STF), It was decided, this Monday (1), that General Augusto Heleno Prove your diagnosis Alzheimer’s disease. The Minister requested that tests be conducted before making the decision to grant Humane house arrestas requested by the general’s defense.
According to Moraes, the analysis is necessary in the face of contradictory information about the former minister’s health condition Corporate Security Office (GSI). the Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease Heleno cited him during the examination of the body of the crime, when he was arrested in Planalto Military CommandBut the defense claimed the status was only confirmed in January 2025, not 2018 as previously reported. The general was sentenced to 21 years in prison Coup attempt.
In the decision, Moraes decided that medical experts from the Federal Police (PF) should prepare an expert report within 15 days, verifying Heleno’s state of health, “in particular his memory and other cognitive functions, as well as any degree of functional impairment resulting from the identified diseases, the care necessary to maintain his physical and cognitive integrity, and the need – or lack thereof – for constant supervision.”
When he was transferred to the military prison, Heleno informed the local expert that he had this type of dementia since 2018. At the detention hearing held the next day, the defense requested that he be granted house arrest on humanitarian grounds, because the general was of advanced age and presented a serious and progressive diagnosis of mixed dementia (Alzheimer’s and vascular disease) in the early stages. The application was accompanied by medical reports and examinations and was approved by the committee Office of the Prosecutor General of the Republic (PGR) grant measure.
Moraes, in turn, requested that additional tests be added to prove the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease from 2018 onward. The defense then explained that Heleno had, at the time, only a psychiatric history of depressive disorder, which subsided in 2020, as well as other cognitive complaints in 2022, which became memory failure in 2023.
The general’s lawyers explained, in the statement they sent on November 29, that the proposal to perform a dementia operation did not appear until 2024, after he was diagnosed with mixed dementia in January 2025. The former minister is 78 years old. The Defense stated to the Minister that information about the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease since 2018 appears only in the report of the Planalto Military Command and that it is possible that this was an error by the expert.
Since there was no diagnosis before that date, the defense justified to the minister that there was no need to communicate with the Presidency of the Republic or any other public body. He also stated that the allegation of incapacity during the interrogation of the general in the June coup plot, in the Special Task Force, had nothing to do with the facts, and that the defense sought to preserve the soldier’s privacy.