Overview
- Proceedings began before a five-judge panel with five sessions scheduled and a verdict expected by September 12.
- Prosecutors accuse Jair Bolsonaro of leading a scheme to block the 2022 transfer of power, exposing him to a potential sentence of more than 40 years.
- Seven close allies stand trial alongside him as the alleged leadership core, including former ministers Anderson Torres and Paulo Sérgio Nogueira and ex–security chief Augusto Heleno.
- Justice Alexandre de Moraes framed the case as a response to an attempted rupture of democracy aimed at installing a dictatorship, stressing that pacification cannot mean impunity.
- Bolsonaro remains under house arrest, and judicial sources say that if convicted he could be sent to the Papuda maximum-security prison in Brasília.