Simply days after the Supreme Court docket rejected his citizenship enchantment, Brazilian authorities have arrested Carlos Wanzeler.
Issues are transferring way more rapidly than anticipated.
Wanzeler (proper) was arrested on Thursday, throughout what seems to be a household go to to Rio de Janeiro.
The Gazette quotes Wanzeler’s Brazilian lawyer, Rafael Lima, as stating Wanzeler was “shocked” by the arrest.
Federal Police executed Wanzeler’s arrest warrant on the behest of the Federal Supreme Court docket, performing on a warrant issued within the US.
The subsequent step is for the International Ministry to report the arrest of the suspect to the US authorities, which should request his extradition.
Having been stripped of his Brazilian citizenship, Wanzeler at present solely holds a US passport.
Wanzeler’s lawyer maintains there’s some new immigration legislation, that prohibits extradition of non-citizens to face parallel lawsuits.
TelexFree operated as Ympactus in Brazil. With respect to TelexFree, Wanzeler is the defendant in 11,000 civil lawsuits, 15 legal lawsuit and a single public civil motion.
The US indicted Wanzeler on fraud prices associated to TelexFree again in 2014.
If Wanzeler is lastly extradited, he’s more likely to be going through not less than a decade behind bars.
In the meantime in Brazil, Wanzeler has been free to vacation since fleeing six years in the past. That’s regardless of the mountain of pending authorized motion towards him.
Brazilian authorities did arrest Wanzeler final December, solely to see him “launched days later”.
As I perceive it Wanzeler is at present being held pending the end result of his extradition case. Keep tuned…