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Judge Authorizes Data Extraction From Cellphone Found in Jairinho’s Cell

Prosecutors say the device could reveal attempts to influence witnesses or links to other alleged crimes.

Overview

  • Prison intelligence from SEPPEN’s Corregedoria prompted a search that turned up a concealed cellphone among books in Jairinho’s cell.
  • Judge Elizabeth Machado Louro granted prosecutor Fábio Vieira dos Santos’s request to break the phone’s data secrecy and ordered the Ministério Público’s cyber‑intelligence division to extract its contents.
  • SEPPEN has placed Jairinho in isolation and opened a disciplinary investigation into the prisoner and unit staff while the occurrence was registered at the 34ª DP in Bangu.
  • Jairinho’s defense says it has not yet been formally notified and will respond after intimation, and Leniel Borel has publicly demanded a full probe into who supplied the phone and how it was used.
  • Jairinho is serving a 43‑year sentence for homicide and torture, and forensic extraction of messages, contacts and metadata could show attempts at witness tampering or reveal connections relevant to other ongoing investigations.