Former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and five other convicted allies from the “crucial core” of the coup plot will undergo a hearing on Wednesday (26). This procedure is mandatory and is used for the judge to verify the legality of arrests during the act or to execute arrest warrants.
The hearings will be held separately, at times determined by the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF). Alexandre de Moraes. The measure will be carried out in places where convicts have begun serving their sentences. It will be moderated by associate judges from the Minister’s Office, and is expected to last 30 minutes and be conducted via video.
- 1 p.m.: Admiral Almir Garnier, former Navy Commander, on Radio Estacão da Força, in Brasilia;
- 1:30 p.m.: Anderson Torres, former Minister of Justice and former Secretary of Security of the Democratic Defense Forces, of the 19th Military Police Battalion of the Federal District (“Pabudinha”), inside the Pabuda prison complex in Brasilia;
- 2 p.m.: General Augusto Heleno, former Minister of the Office of Institutional Security, Planalto Military Command, in Brasilia;
- 2:30 pm: Former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), at the Federal Police Supervision Authority, in Brasilia;
- 3 p.m.: General Paulo Sergio Nogueira, former Minister of Defence, at Planalto Military Command, in Brasilia; and
- 3.30pm: General Walter Braga Neto, former Minister of the Civil House, at Villa Militar, in Rio de Janeiro.
On Tuesday (25), Moraes announced that the case was final and had received a judicial ruling and ordered the implementation of the sentence to begin. The decision came after the Minister rejected the second requests for clarification submitted by the Defense Authority the previous day. The only ones who have not chosen to file this type of appeal are Bolsonaro’s lawyers, Torres and Ramajem. However, Moraes also decreed final sentencing for these convicts because he understood that any kind of appeal was no longer possible to question the conviction.
All those convicted were arrested after the minister’s decision. The only person who has not yet been arrested, and therefore has not yet been scheduled for a detention hearing, is the deputy Alexander Ramajim (PL-RJ) The fugitive. The former head of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN) is in Miami, United States. Moraes ordered that an arrest warrant be included in the National Bank of Prison Monitoring (BNMP) and that the Federal Police take necessary action. The minister will likely request Ramajim’s extradition to Brazil.
Moraes’ decision to declare the measure final and non-appealable was unanimously approved by the Ministers of the First Committee of the STC in an extraordinary virtual session. The trial ends this afternoon, but all four ministers who are part of the committee have already taken their positions.