Overview
- Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered preventive detention for Silvinei Vasques after his apprehension outside Brazil.
- Paraguayan migration officials arrested Vasques at Asuncion’s Silvio Pettirossi Airport as he sought to fly to El Salvador via Panama.
- Brazilian documents say he broke his ankle monitor in Santa Catarina and fled in a rented car while carrying a fraudulent Paraguayan passport.
- Paraguay expelled Vasques and handed him to Brazilian federal police at the Friendship Bridge linking Ciudad del Este and Foz do Iguacu.
- Vasques recently received a 24-year, six-month sentence tied to the 2023 coup case, and de Moraes later put 10 other convicted participants under house arrest.