Overview
- The former Brazilian highways police chief was stopped at Silvio Pettirossi airport while trying to fly to El Salvador via Panama using a Paraguayan identity, officials said.
- Paraguay’s migration agency said he entered the country irregularly by attempting to impersonate a Paraguayan citizen to evade controls.
- Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered preventive detention after he broke his electronic ankle monitor and left home confinement in Santa Catarina, according to police reports.
- Paraguayan authorities acted on a Comando Tripartito alert and, after consultation with Brazil’s Federal Police, ordered his administrative expulsion to deliver him to Brazilian custody.
- Vasques was convicted on December 16 to 24 years and six months for his role in the coup plot linked to Jair Bolsonaro, and the sentence remains subject to appeal.