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Moraes Sends 'Núcleo 4' Case to Trial, Asks Zanin to Set Dates

Prosecutors allege a military‑intelligence cell pushed election disinformation to enable the January 8 attacks.

Overview

  • Alexandre de Moraes declared the case procedurally complete and requested that Primeira Turma president Cristiano Zanin schedule the trial.
  • The First Panel composed of Moraes, Zanin, Cármen Lúcia, Luiz Fux and Flávio Dino is expected to decide the case this year.
  • Seven defendants will stand trial: Ailton Gonçalves Moraes Barros, Ângelo Martins Denicoli, Giancarlo Gomes Rodrigues, Guilherme Marques de Almeida, Reginaldo Vieira de Abreu, Marcelo Araújo Bormevet and Carlos Cesar Moretzsohn Rocha.
  • The PGR accuses the group of orchestrating disinformation about electronic voting, carrying out virtual attacks in 2022, producing a fraudulent report on voting machines and pressuring military leaders to back efforts to overturn the election.
  • Filings cite alleged links including Ailton Barros acting under guidance from Walter Braga Netto and Ângelo Denicoli supplying materials referenced by Alexandre Ramagem in a memo to Jair Bolsonaro, while Núcleos 2 and 3 are also slated for judgment this year and only Núcleo 1 has been convicted so far.