In clarifications sent to Minister Alexandre de Moraes, lawyers claimed that there was no reason for the former president to organize an escape because, at that point, his preventive detention was ‘unlikely’
The defense of the former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) informed the Federal Supreme Court (STF) this Wednesday (27) that his visit to Hungarian Embassy, between the 12th and 14th of February, after having the passports collected in the coup investigation, it was a “political agenda”. “He always maintained close dialogue with the authorities of that country, dealing with strategic international political issues of interest to the conservative sector”, the lawyers claim. The clarifications were sent to the minister Alexandre de Moraes, who had given 48 hours for the former president’s defense to explain itself. It was he who ordered Bolsonaro to hand over the passports last month.
The lawyers argued that there was no reason for the former president to organize an escape because, at that point, his preventive arrest was “unlikely”. The defense argues that, if he had ordered Bolsonaro to be arrested, Minister Alexandre de Moraes would not have ordered his passports to be collected. “Days before the visit to the embassy, a decision was made by the lImo. Minister Rapporteur imposing precautionary measures consisting of the seizure of the passport and the prohibition of being absent from the country, which already indicated that the enactment of a more severe measure, such as preventive detention, was not imminent”, says another excerpt from the document. also states that the former president presented himself to the Court every time he was summoned and made a point of communicating in advance, as a “caution”, the trips he intended to make during the investigation, such as for example to the inauguration of the president of Argentina Javier Milei.
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“There are, therefore, no minimal reasons or even a legal scenario to justify the assumption of any type of movement aimed at obtaining asylum in a foreign embassy or that indicate an intention to evade legal authorities or obstruct, in any way, the application of criminal law.” On social media, lawyer Fábio Wajngarten said that the defense wanted to discuss it personally with the minister, “in order to completely elucidate any and all fanciful speculation on the subject”, but that he sent the document through the process system electronic because the STF is on recess.
Bolsonaro’s visit to the Hungarian Embassy was revealed by the American newspaper The New York Times, which raised the suspicions of the Federal Police. The PF decided to investigate whether the former president tried to organize a diplomatic maneuver to avoid being arrested in the investigation investigating an attempted coup. Federal police officers want to know, for example, whether the visit to the embassy is related to any request for political asylum, which the defense denies.
*With information from Estadão Conteúdo
