Overview
- Councillors approved the impeachment by 188 votes in a secret, court‑authorized hybrid session at Morumbis, with 223 participants.
- Council president Olten Ayres must call a general assembly within 30 days, and vice president Harry Massis Júnior serves as interim leader until then.
- Police investigations examine about R$1.5 million in cash deposits into Casares’s personal account and roughly R$11 million in around 35 club cash withdrawals since 2021, with SPFC treated as a victim and potential crimes under review.
- Casares and his lawyers deny any illicit link between club withdrawals and his deposits, argue there is no legal basis for removal, and say they will document the funds’ origin.
- Supporters demonstrated outside the stadium during the vote, displaying protest banners and symbolic coffins under a heavy security presence.