Eduardo and Paulo Figueiredo react to the complaint and call PGR “Lacaio” de Moraes

Federal Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP) and influencer Paulo Figueiredo issued, on Monday (22), a joint note in response to the complaint presented by the Attorney General’s Office (PGR).

Both are accused of articulating, from the United States, measures of political and economic pressure to try to interfere with the judgments related to the conviction of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) for attempted coup.

According to the prosecution, signed by Attorney General Paulo Gonet, the two acted to “intimidate and embarrass” ministers of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), encouraging Donald Trump’s government reprisals against Brazilian authorities. Although also the target of the inquiry, Jair Bolsonaro was not included in the complaint.

In the note, Eduardo Bolsonaro and Paulo Figueiredo classified the complaint as “Fajuta” and accused the PGR to act as “Lacaia” by Minister Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the processes related to January 8.

“We received the news from another Fajuta complaint from Alexandre de Moraes’s Lacaios at PGR, this time under the claim of ‘coercion’,” they said.

The two, who currently live in the United States, claim to be victims of political persecution and maintain that the action reinforces the need for “wide, general and unrestricted” amnesty to those condemned by scammers.

Connection with US sanctions

In the assessment of Eduardo and Figueiredo, the complaint is directly associated with the sanctions recently imposed by the United States to Minister Alexandre de Moraes, within the magnitsky law.

“The moment of publication, shortly after new US sanctions, highlights the ongoing political persecution. But it is a waste of time: we will not intimidate. On the contrary, it only reinforces what we have repeatedly affirmed-that broad, general and unrestricted amnesty is the only way to Brazil. Weed socks will only aggravate the problem,” he wrote.

PGR accuses Eduardo Bolsonaro and Paulo Figueiredo of coercion in the course of the process, a crime that provides for one to four years in prison. If the complaint is accepted by the Supreme Court, both will become defendants and will respond in criminal action.

For Eduardo, the process brings additional political risk, including the possibility of revocation of mandate due to breach of parliamentary decorum.