Brazilian judge issues arrest warrant for Eduardo Bolsonaro, brother of a presidential candidate
Justice Alexandre de Moraes said Eduardo Bolsonaro must begin a 4-year, 2-month sentence immediately after his appeal was rejected.
- On Thursday, October 8, 2026, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered Eduardo Bolsonaro to immediately begin serving his four years and two months prison sentence, canceling his Brazilian passport.
- The conviction stems from Eduardo Bolsonaro's efforts to lobby the Trump administration for sanctions against Brazilian government members, becoming final on October 3, 2026, following a June 2026 ruling.
- Currently residing in the United States as a green card holder, Eduardo Bolsonaro faces a fine of roughly US$32,000 and an eight-year ban from public office. He maintains he is a victim of political persecution.
- Moraes issued an arrest warrant and entered the defendant into the National Imprisonment Monitoring Bank, instructing Federal Police to detain him should he return to Brazil.
- This decision arrives less than three weeks before the presidential runoff between incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, as Justice Moraes previously led the investigation resulting in former President Jair Bolsonaro's 27-year prison sentence.
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The Brazilian presidential candidate's brother was sentenced in the summer. A judge has now withdrawn his passport. He lives in the USA.
In just under three weeks, the Brazilians will decide who they want to have as future president. Flavio Bolsonaro is considered a favorite. Now an arrest warrant has been issued against his brother Eduardo Bolsonaro.
Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Morais has issued an arrest warrant for former congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, brother of presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro. The ruling requires federal police to detain him if he returns to the country. Eduardo Bolsonaro lives in Texas and has permanent residency in the United States. In June, he was sentenced to four years in prison for lobbying the Trump administration. He is accused of urging W…
In ordering the issuance of an arrest warrant, Judge De Moraes said that, following the rejection of the last appeals, the trial against Bolsonaro acquired the status of res judicata and the sentence became final and unappealable.
Brazil's Supreme Court ruled this Wednesday that former deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, one of the sons of former President Jair Bolsonaro and who settled last year in the United States claiming to suffer political and judicial persecution, will begin to serve one of the sentences he was convicted of.
A judge issues an arrest warrant against Eduardo Bolsonaro to go to prison for one of the crimes he has been convicted of
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