Military officers
Mário Fernandes
ImprisonedConvictedArmed criminal organizationAttempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of LawCoup d'étatAggravated damage (to Union property)Deterioration of heritage-listed propertyDamages: Coup plotCriminal organizationRetired Army general. In the Jair Bolsonaro government, he was appointed by presidential decree special secretary for External Relations at the Chief of Staff's Office (29/04/2021) and executive secretary of the Presidency's General Secretariat (28/07/2021), a post from which he was dismissed, also by decree of Jair Bolsonaro, from 1/01/2023. Convicted by the 1st Panel of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) in AP 2693 (core 2 of the coup plot) and sentenced to 26 years and 6 months; the conviction is final and unappealable.
Court cases and investigations
Criminal sphere
Federal Police (PF) investigation into the coup attempt after the 2022 election
Criminal Case 2693 (coup plot — core 2)