The Paraguayan police handed over the former director of the PRF (Federal Highway Police) Silvinei Vasques to the PF (Federal Police) this Friday (26), according to images from Globonews and CNN Brasil. He was arrested in Asunción, Paraguay, while trying to board a flight to El Salvador.
Silvinei was sentenced this month to 24 years and six months in prison by the first panel of the STF (Federal Supreme Court) as a participant in one of the cores of the coup plot of the government of Jair Bolsonaro (PL). He was waiting for the end of his case at large, monitored by an electronic ankle monitor.
Ministers found him guilty of five crimes, including attempted coup d’état, after carrying out blitzes in localities predominantly dominated by Lula (PT) voters on the day of the second round of the 2022 elections.
The Federal Police detected a failure in the monitoring of Vasques’ electronic ankle bracelet on December 25 at 3 a.m. According to agent reports, at that point the equipment stopped transmitting the GPS signal.
The first team called to check the loss of the ankle bracelet signal was the Santa Catarina Criminal Police, around 8 p.m. this Thursday (25). Silvinei was no longer in his apartment in the municipality of São José.
Around 11 p.m., a team from the Regional Superintendence of the Federal Police of Santa Catarina was on site to investigate possible non-compliance with restrictive measures.
Silvinei allegedly used a rental car to leave the building where he lived, in Santa Catarina, towards Paraguay. A few hours before breaking his ankle bracelet, the former director of the PRF put his things away. Wearing sweatpants, a t-shirt and a cap, he carried bags, dog toilet mats and a pit bull to the vehicle.
The PF informed the main stages of Silvinei’s escape attempt to Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF (Supreme Federal Court), who ordered his preventive detention.
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