Brazil’s Supreme Court Certifies Finality in Coup Plot Case, Orders Bolsonaro to Begin 27-Year Sentence

Overview

• Minister Alexandre de Moraes certified trânsito em julgado after rejecting fresh defense petitions and said embargos infringentes do not apply because the September conviction had only one vote for acquittal.
• The 1st Panel opened a 24-hour virtual session to review Moraes’s orders, with Moraes and Flávio Dino voting to uphold the execution of sentences as votes from Cármen Lúcia and Cristiano Zanin remain pending until Wednesday evening.
• Bolsonaro begins serving his sentence at the Federal Police headquarters in Brasília, while Walter Braga Netto goes to the Army’s 1st Division in Rio, Anderson Torres to the Papuda complex, Augusto Heleno and Paulo Sérgio Nogueira to the Comando Militar do Planalto, and Almir Garnier to a Navy facility in Brasília.
• Alexandre Ramagem is considered a fugitive in the United States after an arrest warrant was issued, and the Federal Police were instructed to take necessary steps that could include an extradition request.
• Defense teams for Bolsonaro and other convicts argue they can still file embargos infringentes under the STF’s internal rules, but court jurisprudence cited by Moraes deems the remedy inadmissible here; Mauro Cid continues to serve a two-year open-regime sentence as a cooperating witness.