Politicians

Delegado Éder Mauro

ConvictedDefamationThreat (art. 147 of the Penal Code)Torture (Law 9.455/1997)Ideological forgery (art. 299 of the Penal Code)

federal deputy (PA) for the PL; convicted by Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF), final and unappealable, of aggravated defamation against then-deputy Jean Wyllys (AP 1021; sentence replaced by a pecuniary penalty and declared extinguished by compliance in 2024)

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Support for Jair Bolsonaro

Deputy from the Bolsonaro government's base: on 12/03/2022 he joined the PL at an event attended by Bolsonaro, described by the press as the move of the "government's allied deputies" to the president's new party.

Court cases and investigations

Criminal sphere

Criminal Case 1021 (private criminal complaint by Jean Wyllys against Éder Mauro for sharing an edited video) — Convicted (final, unappealable)
Criminal Case 967 (threat — Éder Mauro) — Acquitted
Criminal Case 989 (torture and ideological forgery — Éder Mauro; returned to the Pará courts in 2018) — Defendant (charges accepted by the court)

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