After Vasques’ Detention, Moraes Orders House Arrests for Ten Coup-Plot Convicts

Overview

• Silvinei Vasques, sentenced to 24 years and 6 months, was seized at Asunción’s airport trying to fly to El Salvador with another person’s Paraguayan passport and was expelled to Brazil.
• Minister Alexandre de Moraes converted Vasques’ cautions into preventive detention after police reported an ankle monitor failure and confirmed he left his home in Santa Catarina.
• The Federal Police began enforcing ten domiciliary arrests with electronic monitoring across eight states and the Federal District, with Army support in parts of the operation.
• Targets include ex-presidential adviser Filipe Martins and former Justice Ministry intelligence chief Marília Alencar, with bans on social media and contacts, passport surrender, suspended gun permits, and restricted visits.
• Separately, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ordered immediate administrative expulsion proceedings for a CGU employee filmed assaulting a woman and a child, as the CGU imposed precautionary restrictions and opened internal probes.