Bolsonaro will lose his privileged legal status in 2023 and could be tried in ordinary courts.

247 - Jair Bolsonaro was advised by his lawyers to leave the country before January 1st, when he leaves office and therefore loses his privileged legal status, due to the lawsuits he faces.

Aware of his crimes, Bolsonaro said he would not comply with decisions of the Supreme Federal Court and shouted to his supporters on September 7th of last year: “I will only leave here in handcuffs, dead, or victorious. I will tell the scoundrels that I will never be imprisoned.”

This Friday (30), he traveled to the USA. Out of office, Bolsonaro also no longer has the privileged jurisdiction that guaranteed him that he could only be denounced by the Attorney General of the Republic, Augusto Aras, whom he appointed to the position whose term ends only in September 2023.

Currently, at the Supreme Federal Court, Bolsonaro is facing four investigations: one regarding political interference in the Federal Police, opened after accusations by Sergio Moro; another regarding the leak of a confidential Federal Police investigation; one regarding the fake news he disseminated throughout the pandemic, including one linking vaccines to the AIDS virus; and another regarding false news against electronic voting machines and the electoral process.

Two other criminal cases are pending against Bolsonaro for incitement to rape and defamation against federal congresswoman Maria do Rosário (PT-RS). These cases have not progressed in recent years because the Constitution prohibits holding the president accountable for events prior to his term. With the end of his term, the cases may return to the ordinary courts.

Furthermore, in the Covid CPI report, Bolsonaro is charged with nine types of crimes, including the common offenses of causing an epidemic resulting in death, violating preventive sanitary measures, quackery, incitement to crime, falsification of private documents, irregular use of public funds, and prevarication; crimes against humanity in the forms of extermination, persecution, and other inhumane acts; and crimes of responsibility for violating social rights and incompatibility with the dignity, honor, and decorum of the office.

The Attorney General's Office requested the dismissal of most of the resulting investigations, but the final decision rests with the Supreme Court.

In an interview with capital letterCriminal lawyer Antonio Carlos de Almeida Castro, known as Kakay, warned that "after a case is closed, the investigation can only be reopened if there is new evidence."

"But I think that many of the cases that were shelved could be reopened, considering an analysis of the facts as a whole," he stated.

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