Italian Court Eases Curbs on Tagliaferro, Keeps Travel Ban During Extradition Review

Overview

• The Court of Appeal of Catanzaro revoked Eduardo Tagliaferro’s residence obligation, allowing him to move freely within Italy, and ordered issuance of an identity document not valid for international travel.
• Italy maintained a prohibition on leaving the country as a precaution while judges assess Brazil’s formal extradition request.
• Prosecutors in Brazil accuse the former TSE adviser of leaking confidential STF material to obstruct investigations into antidemocratic activity and to benefit private interests.
• Tagliaferro’s defense portrays the case as political persecution, with his lawyer calling the Italian ruling a first step in demonstrating flaws in the extradition process.
• He resigned from the TSE in 2023 after a domestic-violence detention and later testified in the Senate alleging grave procedural fraud by Justice Alexandre de Moraes.