STF Keeps Filipe Martins in Preventive Detention After Arrest Over Alleged LinkedIn Breach

Overview

• Federal Police arrested the ex-presidential adviser at his home in Ponta Grossa on Jan. 2 under an order by Justice Alexandre de Moraes, and he was taken to a local penitentiary despite appeals pending on his roughly 21-year sentence.
• After a same-day custody hearing led by Moraes’s auxiliary judge Flávia Martins de Carvalho, the Supreme Court kept him in preventive detention, with the record noting no complaints of abuse.
• Moraes said Martins violated a ban on using social networks “directly or through third parties” by accessing LinkedIn; the defense says only lawyers handled the account for nonpublic, evidentiary purposes.
• According to reports, an email from retired Air Force colonel Ricardo Wagner Roquetti alleging that his LinkedIn was viewed by Martins’s account was attached to the case file and factored into the ruling.
• The detention follows late-December shifts to stricter custody over flight-risk concerns after escape incidents, and on the same day Moraes denied Jair Bolsonaro’s bid for house arrest for lack of new medical grounds.