Overview
- Federal Police began serving Supreme Court-ordered home arrests and restrictions on ten recently convicted defendants, including electronic monitoring, passport surrender, and bans on visits and social media.
- Carlos Cesar Moretzsohn Rocha, head of Instituto Voto Legal, was not found at his registered address, told lawyers he had moved without giving a new location, and is now considered a fugitive.
- Rocha’s institute was hired by the PL to produce reports used to challenge the 2022 vote, which the court deemed baseless and part of efforts to discredit Brazil’s electronic voting system.
- Ex-PRF chief Silvinei Vasques was captured in Asunción using false documents after his ankle monitor stopped signaling on December 25, was transferred to Brasília’s Papuda complex, and had his custody maintained by the Supreme Court.
- Vasques asked to be moved to a Santa Catarina facility and Moraes has up to five days to rule, while authorities cite a pattern of planned foreign escapes and say monitoring has tightened with faster alerts and international cooperation through mechanisms such as the Comando Tripartite, Ameripol, and Interpol.