US expel Brazilian delegate for case involving Ramagem: “Political persecution”
The North American government announced this Monday (20), via the social network X, the expulsion of a Brazilian delegate allegedly involved in the arrest of former federal deputy Alexandre Ramagem by the United States immigration police last week.
“No foreigner can manipulate our immigration system to circumvent formal extradition requests and extend political persecution into United States territory. Today, we ask that the Brazilian official involved leave our country for trying to do this”, says a text published by the US Department of State’s Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs.
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Although the publication on the social network did not mention any names, the North American embassy in Brasília confirmed to Reuters that the authority mentioned is the Federal Police attaché in Miami Marcelo Ivo de Carvalho, liaison officer of the Brazilian government with the North American immigration police.
Two Brazilian government sources interviewed by Reuters They said they had no information about the expulsion, having been informed about the case only by the press.
Ramagem, who was head of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) under the Jair Bolsonaro government, has been on the run in the USA since September last year, after being convicted by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) for participating in the attempted coup d’état led by Bolsonaro.
The former congressman, who had his mandate revoked by the Chamber, lives with his family in Orlando, Florida, where he was detained a week ago by ICE, the US federal agency that enforces immigration laws. He was released two days later.
On the day of Ramagem’s arrest, the Brazilian PF stated, without mentioning names, that a Brazilian had been arrested in the USA as a result of “international police cooperation between the Federal Police and US police authorities”, adding that the prisoner was “considered a fugitive from Brazilian Justice after conviction for the crimes of armed criminal organization, coup d’état and attempted violent abolition of the Rule of Law”.
Ramagem’s allies argued that the arrest had occurred for a minor traffic violation. THE Reuters was unable to independently confirm this information.
