Filipe Martins, former advisor to Bolsonaro, is arrested on Moraes’ orders

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Filipe Martins, former advisor to Jair Bolsonaro, was arrested by the federal police on the orders of Minister Alexandre de Moraes for violation of precautionary measures, accused of involvement in a putsch plot.

Filipe Martins, former advisor to former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), was arrested this Friday morning 2, at his home in Ponta Grossa (PR), by the Federal Police (PF). The arrest took place following an order from Minister Alexandre de Moraes, from the Federal Court (STF).

According to information from the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper, Martins was taken to a city prison. Martins has been under house arrest since last Saturday the 27th. Preventive detention was ordered after he allegedly violated one of the precautionary measures imposed by not accessing social networks.

According to the minister, the former advisor to Jair Bolsonaro had carried out a search on the LinkedIn platform on Sunday 29 to look for third party profiles, thus violating the ban on access to social networks. THE Earth tries to contact the Mariners defense.

Filipe Martins is part of the so-called “core 2” of the coup plot, accused of having participated in the operationalization of the attempt at institutional rupture. On December 16, he was sentenced by the Supreme Court to 21 years and six months in prison for five crimes.

Born in Sorocaba (SP), Martins is 38 years old. In his professional profile, he claims to have a degree in international relations from the University of Brasilia and to have studied diplomacy and defense at the Escola Superior de Guerra. He assumed the position of Special Advisor for International Affairs to the Presidency in 2019, at the start of Bolsonaro’s government, after working with then-Chancellor Ernesto Araújo during the transition period.