Overview
- With evidence and witness testimony completed since April, the STF’s First Panel opens hearings Tuesday to decide guilt or acquittal and, if needed, set individual sentences and civil or administrative effects.
- The Prosecutor-General’s Office has formally asked the court to convict all six defendants in the case.
- The defendants are Filipe Garcia Martins Pereira, Mário Fernandes, Silvinei Vasques, Fernando de Sousa Oliveira, Marcelo Costa Câmara, and Marília Ferreira de Alencar.
- The charges include criminal organization, violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, coup d’état, qualified damage, and deterioration of protected heritage.
- If convicted, potential outcomes include prison, loss of public posts or elected mandates, and electoral ineligibility under the Constitution, Penal Code and Clean Record Law, with effects taking hold only after a final decision; for the two military or ex-military defendants, loss of rank is possible if sentences exceed two years, to be decided by the Superior Military Court.