PGR makes agreements with 8/1 defendants, sets fines of up to R$20,000 and awaits approval from Moraes

Justice

Terms also provide for community services; denounced for having carried out the attacks cannot enter into the agreement

Brasilia DF) – The PGR (Attorney General’s Office) reported this Friday (22) that the proposals for the first ten non-criminal prosecution agreements with those accused of inciting the coup acts on January 8 were made official.

To sign the agreements, the defendants confess to committing crimes and assume obligations such as providing community services, participation in ongoing democracy, prohibition of maintaining open accounts on social networks, in addition to a fine.

The agreements must be endorsed by Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF (Supreme Federal Court). The obligations assumed involve the fulfillment of 300 hours of community services, with a monthly workload ranging from 30 hours to 60 hours.

In a note, the PGR informed that the fine varies according to the financial condition of each defendant.

“In the case of the first 10 agreements, fines vary between R$5,000 and R$20,000. Another requirement is that those reported do not keep social networks open, from the moment of celebration until full compliance with the ANPP [acordo de não persecução penal]. They must also participate in a course on the theme “Democracy, Rule of Law and Coup d’Etat”,

said the Prosecutor’s Office.

The possibility of an agreement was offered to those accused of inciting the acts. These are people who were arrested in the camp in front of the Army headquarters, in Brasília, and whose sentences for which they were reported do not reach four years in prison.

The PGR says that, to date, 301 of the 1,125 denounced as incitors of the acts have expressed interest in signing the agreement.

Those accused of having carried out attacks on the headquarters of the three Powers cannot enter into an agreement with the PGR.

“People accused of serious crimes – those carrying out anti-democratic acts, accused of violent abolition of the democratic rule of law and coup d’état – cannot benefit from the institute, created by Law 13,964/2019 (Anti-Crime Package). In these cases, the defendants are being judged by the Plenary of the STF”,

says the PGR note.

In September, the STF sentenced the first three defendants tried for the coup attacks.

By majority vote, the ministers classified them as crimes of criminal association, coup d’état, abolition of the democratic rule of law, qualified damage to the Union’s assets and deterioration of listed assets.

A fine of R$30 million was also imposed on everyone for collective moral damages to be paid jointly by those convicted. The crimes were charged by the PGR and accepted by Moraes.

The sentences imposed reached 17 years in prison for two of those convicted. The other was sentenced to 14 years.

*With information from Folha

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