Overview

• Italian police detained the former TSE computing adviser on Oct. 1 and took him to a station to apply precautionary measures linked to Brazil’s extradition request, his defense said.
• He will not be jailed but cannot leave his region until a final decision, with documentation provided and release to his residence expected, according to his lawyer.
• Brazil sent the extradition bid to Italian authorities on Aug. 20 after Justice Alexandre de Moraes authorized it at the Supreme Court.
• The case stems from a Prosecutor-General complaint alleging leaks of confidential tribunal messages and charging him with official-secrecy violations, coercion, obstruction, and an attempt to abolish the democratic order.
• A dual national who moved to Italy this year, he has cast the process as political and was due to address another Chamber committee remotely before the detention halted the appearance.