US orders Brazilian delegate involved in Ramagem’s arrest to leave the country

Ramagem leaves prison in the USA The United States ordered a Brazilian delegate involved in the arrest of former deputy Alexandre Ramagem (PL-RJ) to leave the country. The measure was released this Monday (20) by the American government’s Office for Western Hemisphere Affairs. ✅ Follow the g1 international news channel on WhatsApp Without mentioning names, the American government stated on a social network that a Brazilian authority tried to “circumvent formal extradition requests” to promote “political persecution” in the country. “No foreigner can manipulate our immigration system to circumvent formal extradition requests and extend political persecution to United States territory. Today, we ask that the Brazilian official in question leave the country for trying to do this”, says the text. TV Globo confirmed with the Brazilian Embassy in the United States that the authority cited is Federal Police delegate Marcelo Ivo de Carvalho, who worked with the United States Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE). Carvalho was appointed to work in Miami in March 2023, on a two-year mission with ICE. Among its functions is the identification and arrest of fugitives from Brazilian justice in the USA. In March 2025, the government published an ordinance that extended his stay on the mission until August of this year. Itamaraty said it will not comment on the matter. The PF was not formally informed about the US government’s measure. Ramagem was detained by ICE on April 13 in Orlando, Florida. That day, the PF reported that he had been arrested for immigration reasons and taken to a detention center. The former deputy was released two days later. After leaving jail, Ramagem published a video thanking the top leadership of the Donald Trump government for his release. In the recording, he stated that his release was administrative, without any judicial procedure or bail payment being carried out. “I come to thank the North American government, from the highest leadership of the Trump administration,” said Ramagem in a post on social media. Members of ICE informed the PF that Ramagem will be able to wait in freedom, in the USA, for the analysis of an asylum request. g1 found that Brazilian authorities began preparing a report with information and documents to try to speed up his deportation to Brazil. Ramagem left Brazil in 2025 after being sentenced by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to 16 years in prison for an attempted coup d’état. He is accused of being part of the central core of the plot, which sought to keep former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in power. According to PF investigations published by g1, he left the country clandestinely before the end of the trial. Information indicates that he crossed the border between Roraima and Guyana and then headed to the United States. In January of this year, the Ministry of Justice informed the STF that the former deputy’s extradition request had been forwarded to the US government. The Brazilian Embassy in Washington sent the documentation to the State Department on December 30, 2025. READ ALSO In Germany, Lula denies turbulence in the electoral scenario and says he is ‘calm’ about running for a fourth term Trump says that the agreement with Iran should be concluded ‘relatively quickly’ and will be ‘much better’ than that of previous governments Ipsos-Ipec: 90% of Brazilians believe that the conflict between the USA, Israel and Iran will have an impact on the country’s economy Who is Alexandre Ramage? Alexandre Ramagem (PL-RJ), former director of ABIN and former federal deputy PEDRO KIRILOS/ESTADÃO CONTENT Alexandre Ramagem is a Federal Police delegate and Brazilian politician. He joined the Federal Police in 2005. He gained prominence when he headed Jair Bolsonaro’s security after the attack in Juiz de Fora, during the 2018 campaign. During the Bolsonaro administration, he was appointed to head the Brazilian Intelligence Agency. His management is the target of investigations into the use of the body’s structure to illegally monitor political opponents, in the case known as “Abin Paralela”. In 2020, Bolsonaro tried to appoint him Director General of the Federal Police, but the appointment was suspended by Minister Alexandre de Moraes (STF) due to Ramagem’s personal proximity to the president’s family. In 2022, he was elected by PL-RJ with around 59 thousand votes. His mandate was revoked by the Board of Directors of the Chamber in December last year, after his criminal conviction in the coup plot. In 2024, he ran for Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, finishing in second place. VIDEOS: most watched on g1

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