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Federal Police Arrest Ex-Bolsonaro Aide Filipe Martins After Alleged Social-Media Breach

The Supreme Court converted his home confinement to preventive detention after citing LinkedIn activity that violated a ban as his 21-year conviction remains under appeal.

O ex-deputado Eduardo Bolsonaro durante entrevista à imprensa.
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Overview

  • Police detained Martins at his home in Ponta Grossa, Paraná, on January 2 on an order from Supreme Court minister Alexandre de Moraes and took him to a local facility.
  • Moraes said Martins broke a court order forbidding social-network use by accessing LinkedIn to look up profiles, calling the breach a sign of disrespect for judicial measures.
  • Martins’ defense told the court his lawyers, not he, accessed the LinkedIn account without posting, a claim Moraes rejected in decreeing preventive custody under Brazil’s criminal procedure.
  • The detention follows a late-December tightening of measures for coup-case defendants after escape attempts, notably PRF ex-chief Silvinei Vasques’s effort to reach Paraguay.
  • The case file includes an email from retired Air Force colonel Ricardo Wagner Roquetti reporting a LinkedIn view attributed to Martins, which helped prompt the violation review.