Federal Police Detain Ex-Bolsonaro Aide Filipe Martins on Moraes’ Order

Overview

• Agents arrested Martins at his home in Ponta Grossa, Paraná, and transferred him to local custody after his detention was converted from house arrest to preventive custody.
• Minister Alexandre de Moraes cited LinkedIn activity as the violation and rejected the defense claim that lawyers accessed the account for evidence preservation, stressing the prohibition extends to third-party use.
• The order was signed on December 31 after a 24-hour demand for explanation, tightening measures that were imposed on December 27 due to heightened flight-risk concerns after recent escape attempts.
• Martins was sentenced by the STF’s First Panel to 21 years for the 2022 coup plot, but appeals are pending and Friday’s detention does not initiate service of that sentence.
• The alert originated from an email by retired colonel Ricardo Wagner Roquetti reporting a LinkedIn profile view attributed to Martins, while Bolsonaro allies publicly denounced the arrest as political.