Brazil’s Supreme Court Finalizes Coup Case, Orders Bolsonaro to Begin 27-Year Sentence

Overview

• Alexandre de Moraes certified the convictions as final and directed Jair Bolsonaro to start serving his sentence at the Federal Police headquarters in Brasília, where he had been held preventively since Saturday.
• The First Panel ratified Moraes’ order in a virtual session after he ruled embargos infringentes inadmissible and noted that the deadline for further embargos had passed without filings by key defendants.
• Custody placements were set: Augusto Heleno and Paulo Sérgio Nogueira at the Comando Militar do Planalto, Almir Garnier at the Navy’s radio station in Brasília, Walter Braga Netto at the 1st Army Division in Rio, and Anderson Torres at the 19th PM battalion; Mauro Cid remains on a two-year home sentence under a plea deal.
• Deputy Alexandre Ramagem, sentenced to more than 16 years, is abroad in the United States and considered a fugitive; Moraes issued an arrest order, revoked his mandate, and authorities are weighing extradition steps.
• Collateral measures were triggered, with notifications to the TSE on political ineligibility and to the military judiciary on possible loss of rank, as defense teams denounced the rulings and signaled moves such as criminal reviews and international petitions.