Moraes requests Augusto Heleno’s initial Alzheimer’s examination and documents about the disease
Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court, gave five days for the defense of General Augusto Heleno, former head of the Institutional Security Office, to present the initial examination that diagnosed the soldier’s Alzheimer’s condition, as well as all reports and medical evaluations, since 2018, that prove the alleged condition to request the house arrest of former president Jair Bolsonaro’s ally.
The determination is contained in an order signed this Saturday, the 29th, citing the “need for complete instruction regarding the alleged clinical history” by the soldier. In the document, Moraes also orders Heleno’s lawyers to clarify whether he communicated the diagnosis to the health service of the Presidency of the Republic or some other body at the time that headed the GSI, between 2019 and 2022.
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After Heleno was taken to the Planalto Military Command to serve the definitive sentence of 21 years in prison to which he was sentenced in the coup’s criminal action, his defense requested his humanitarian house arrest, due to his health condition and advanced age.
The lawyers maintained that the former head of the GSI is 78 years old and has a serious and progressive clinical condition, with a diagnosis of mixed dementia (Alzheimer’s and vascular) in the early stages.
According to the defense, Heleno has had cognitive symptoms since 2018, “with progressive evolution documented in reports that culminated in the diagnosis of mixed dementia”. The Attorney General’s Office gave a favorable opinion on the soldier’s house arrest.
When analyzing the case, Moraes understood that “no document, exam, report, news or proof of the presence of symptoms contemporary to the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023” was presented to the STF, highlighting that in that period the military was head of the GSI, to which the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN) is subordinate – “responsible for intelligence information sensitive to National Sovereignty.”
The minister stressed that the exams accompanying the medical report attached to Heleno’s case were carried out in 2024. He also noted that, at “no point” during the course of the coup criminal case, Heleno “alleged cognitive problems”.
