Brazil's Attorney General's Office files charges against Eduardo Bolsonaro and Paulo Figueiredo with the Supreme Court.
Both are cited for coercion in a judicial process within the scope of the investigation into the coup plot.
247 - The Attorney General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet, filed charges and requested the conviction, this Monday (22), of federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, and of the pro-Bolsonaro blogger Paulo Renato Figueiredo Filho, to the Supreme Federal Court (STF).
Both are cited for coercion in a judicial process, according to the Attorney General's Office statement.
According to the Attorney General's Office, the accusation is that the defendants "orchestrated successive actions aimed at interfering in judicial processes to benefit Jair Bolsonaro," who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for leading the coup plot after the 2022 elections, "and Paulo Renato Figueiredo Filho himself."
Gonet asserts that Eduardo Bolsonaro and Paulo Figueiredo, who are in the United States, are submitting "the interests of the Republic and the entire community to their own personal and family designs," according to the statement.
"They threatened judicial authorities and other branches of government with the promise that they could obtain sanctions from US authorities designed to hinder and ruin their civilian lives, even in Brazil, if the criminal proceedings did not have the outcome they desired or if the amnesty – necessarily and primarily extended to Jair Bolsonaro – was not discussed and obtained in the National Congress," the complaint states.
The investigation originated from a criminal complaint filed by federal deputy Lindbergh Farias (PT-RJ).