US EditionBrazil’s top court orders detention of ex- head of highway police after escape attempt
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As a co-conspirator of former Brazilian President Bolsonaro, former policing officer Vasques is sentenced to 24 years in prison. He flees from house arrest to Paraguay, where he wants to board a plane, and is arrested.
Brazil's top court orders detention of ex- head of highway police after escape attempt
SAO PAULO, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Brazil Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Friday ordered the preventive detention of the former head of the country's federal highway police, who was captured in Paraguay, according to a court document seen by Reuters and information from two people familiar with the matter. Read full story
Brazil’s top court orders detention of ex- head of highway police after escape attempt
SAO PAULO, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Brazil Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Friday ordered the preventive detention of the former head of the country’s federal highway police, who was captured in Paraguay, according to a court document seen by Reuters and information from two people familiar with the matter. Silvinei Vasques, who served under former President Jair Bolsonaro, was caught while trying to board a plane at Asuncion airport in …
Silvinei Vasques broke his electronic anklet and traveled by road from southern Brazil to Asunción, where he planned to escape to El Salvador
Fleeing Bolsonaro ally arrested in Paraguay after coup conviction
A Brazilian former police chief who fled the country after he was convicted as an accomplice in the attempted coup trial of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested in Paraguay, a police source said Friday.
The police of Paraguay stopped the former director of the Federal Road Viaria Police (PRF) Silvinie Vasques at Silvio Pettirossi International Airport, in Assunción, when he was trying to sail to El Salvador. The Paraguayan authorities published photos in which he appeared wearing green shirts and wearing jeans, along with a local migration agent.
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