After deciding on the conviction of former President Jair Bolsonaro and seven allies, the first class of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) determined that the Superior Military Court (STM) patent loss of the military of the armed forces defendants in the criminal prosecution of the coup plot.
With the decision, Bolsonaro, who is captain of the Army Reserve, generals Augusto Heleno, Paulo Sergio Nogueira and Braga Netto and Admiral Almir Garnier must be tried by the Military Justice. The Constitution provides that armed forces officers may be expelled in cases of criminal conviction of more than two years in prison.
The analysis of the case by the STM, therefore, can only occur after the final judgment of the coup plot action, that is, after the exhaustion of all possible appeals against the conviction.
The decision of the Military Justice for a possible loss of patent of the defendants, however, cannot be applied in the case of Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, defendant and whistleblower in the coup plot. Cid was sentenced to two years in prison in open regime and received the guarantee of freedom.
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The benefit of the open regime was suggested by the rapporteur in the criminal action, Minister Alexandre de Moraes, after the board entered the phase of the dosimetry of the convictions of the defendants of the coup plot.
Resources and prison
Most of the defendants were sentenced to the STF to more than 20 years in prison in closed regime. Despite the definition of conviction time, Bolsonaro and the others will not be arrested immediately. They can still resort to the decision and try to reverse the convictions. Only if any appeals are rejected, can the arrests be effective.
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Bolsonaro
The former president is currently house arrestbut as a result of another process. Bolsonaro is investigated for his performance with the government of US President Donald Trump to promote retaliation measures against the Brazilian government and ministers of the Supreme.
A series of precautionary measures They were determined in the investigation that investigates federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP), son of the former president, for his performance with the government of Trump, to promote retaliation measures against the Brazilian government and the ministers of the Supreme.
In this process, the former president is investigated for sending funds via Pix to pay for his son’s stay abroad-in March, Eduardo requested license from the parliamentary mandate and went to live in the United States on the grounds of political persecution. In August, the Federal Police indicated Bolsonaro and his son for coercion crimes in the course of the process and attempted abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law.
Towers and Ramage lose office
The Supreme Court also determined that former Justice Minister Anderson Torres and former director of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) Alexandre Ramagem are fired from the positions of Federal Police delegate. They are away from the corporation. Speeders, they must lose office as a result of conviction by the Court.
