Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered former president Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving a 27-year-and-three-month prison sentence for leading a criminal conspiracy to remain in power after his 2022 election defeat to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Justice Alexandre de Moraes ruled Tuesday that the case had reached final judgment with no further appeals possible.
Bolsonaro, 70, will serve his term in a 12-square-meter cell at a federal police facility in Brasília, where he has been held since Saturday after attempting to remove his electronic ankle monitor.
The court found Bolsonaro guilty in September of orchestrating a plan that included proposed assassinations of Lula and vice-presidential candidate Geraldo Alckmin, as well as the arrest and execution of Justice Moraes himself.
The conspiracy collapsed when army and air force commanders refused to participate.
On 8 January 2023, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed government buildings in Brasília in an action justices said he incited to provoke military intervention.
Lula was inaugurated without incident on 1 January 2023.
Six accomplices were also ordered to prison Tuesday.
Former defense ministers Gen Paulo Sérgio Nogueira de Oliveira (19 years) and Gen Walter Braga Netto (26 years), former institutional security minister Gen Augusto Heleno (21 years), former navy commander Adm Almir Garnier Santos (24 years), and former justice minister Anderson Torres (24 years) were taken into custody.
Former intelligence chief Alexandre Ramagem (16 years) fled to the United States and remains at large.
Bolsonaro is barred from public office until 2060.