In turn, the former director of Intelligence at the Ministry of Justice, Marília Alencar, was convicted of attempted violent abolition of the democratic rule of law and coup d’état, for which she was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison.
Both Marília Alencar and Silvinei Vasques were removed from their respective public positions — delegate of the Federal Police and municipal secretary of Economic Development in the city of São José, in the state of Santa Catarina, respectively.
Furthermore, the high court decided to suspend for eight years the political rights of all the defendants, who “will not be able to vote or run for any public office”, according to a statement from the entity, which also announces that a joint fine in the amount of 30 million Brazilian reais (just over 4.6 million euros) “for collective moral damages” had been approved, a sanction to be paid “together by all those convicted of participating in the events of January 8, 2023”.
On the other hand, Federal Police delegate Fernando Oliveira was acquitted due to lack of evidence, with judge Alexandre de Moraes, instructor of the case, considering that “even if he was aware of the facts, there is not sufficient evidence that he joined the coup movement”.
The trial of the second group of defendants was the last of the five to be held, within the scope of a long judicial process that brought together 1,734 criminal actions, 619 of them concerning “more serious crimes, such as criminal organization, attempted coup d’état and crimes against the democratic rule of law”, as indicated by the Supreme Court in a previous statement.