Moraes Orders Transfer of Two Marielle Case Convicts to Rio State Prison

Overview

• Alexandre de Moraes authorized moving Domingos Brazão and Rivaldo Barbosa to the Presídio Pedrolino Werling de Oliveira in the Gericinó complex in Rio de Janeiro.
• Authorities were ordered to carry out the transfer immediately and report compliance to the Supreme Court within 24 hours.
• Before the order, Brazão was held in the federal penitentiary in Porto Velho and Barbosa in the federal penitentiary in Mossoró.
• Moraes wrote that the exceptional reasons for federal incarceration lost force after the case’s instruction ended and the evidence was stabilized, with no concrete current risk identified.
• The transfers were requested by the defenses, the PGR did not oppose, and both men were convicted in February—Brazão to 76 years for ordering the murders, Barbosa to 18 years for obstruction of justice and passive corruption.