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Overview
- Ramagem, detained Monday in Orlando, remains in ICE custody as U.S. and Brazilian authorities coordinate next steps confirmed by Brazil’s federal police.
- He was sentenced by Brazil’s Supreme Court to 16 years for crimes linked to the January 8, 2023 plot to subvert the democratic order, and later lost his seat in the Chamber of Deputies.
- Supporters say a minor traffic infraction prompted the stop and cite a pending U.S. asylum request, while Brazil’s federal police credit international cooperation for the detention.
- Brazil submitted an extradition request in January 2026 and put him on Interpol notices, as opposition lawmakers ask the Supreme Court to suspend his conviction and urge the U.S. Embassy to block any extradition.
- Following Tuesday’s Senate defeat of a CPI report that sought to indict three Supreme Court justices and the prosecutor general, Justice Gilmar Mendes said he would refer the relator to federal prosecutors for alleged abuse of authority, signaling an escalating institutional fight.