Jair Bolsonaro has been detained after authorities determined he posed a concrete flight risk while under domestic detention.
The former head of state was convicted of planning a armed takeover in the ninth month and sentenced more than a 27-year term in jail, but he was staying under home detention pending court reviews.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Justice Moraes said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a preventative measure after recent developments emerged.
This included trying to remove his electronic bracelet and a call for a demonstration that could "allow for a possible escape.
Legal Document Reveals Escape Concerns
In a paperwork permitting the custody, the judge said intelligence from the facility tracking his home detention suggested the one-time head of state's aim to disable the tracking monitor to guarantee victory in his escape.
This, it said, would be made easier by the disorder caused by the protest called by his offspring.
His child, Flávio Bolsonaro, who serves as a senator, called for a meeting of his followers near his father's house to take place on the weekend.
The senator wrote on digital networks on the previous day: "Are you going to fight for your homeland, or watch it all from your mobile device there on your couch? I invite you to fight with us."
He said the gathering would be so backers could offer prayers for his well-being and for the restoration of democratic rule in our land."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the magistrate's determination was the possibility of Bolsonaro's move to foreign missions near the home, considering that the probes revealed a history of organizing to seek refuge through a embassy office", a announcement said.
The legal document highlights that the US embassy in the federal district, Brasilia, is located around 13km from Bolsonaro's home.
Worldwide Consequences
His judicial problems have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist American leader President Trump, causing him to implement a 50% tariff on imports of Brazilian goods.
Bolsonaro is being held in a national police facility in the capital and will experience a custody hearing on the following day.
Recent Judicial Appeals
It was only on the previous day that the his legal team asked the High Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under home confinement, with tracking devices.
They also requested that the former president be authorized to exit his dwelling for medical treatment, saying he demanded regular treatment for pulmonary infections and other illnesses.
Details of Guilty Verdict
He was convicted of orchestrating a plot aimed at retaining his authority after he lost the national vote to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
High Court judges said that he was aware of a scheme which encompassed plans to assassinate Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and to detain and kill Alexandre de Moraes - the High Court judge who has been managing his judicial proceedings.
The conspiracy was stopped because it didn't receive the support of the armed forces officials. Lula was sworn in without incident on the first day of 2023.
But a following week, on the eighth of January, thousands of his followers invaded and destroyed official structures in the federal district, the capital city.
The police took action and around approximately 1,500 persons were arrested.
The judges found that the protesters had been encouraged by him whose strategy, they said, was for the national armed forces to step in, reestablish control and return him to office.
At the time, Bolsonaro's lawyers called the over 27-year sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also barred from running for public office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The former president called the trial a political persecution and said it was designed to prevent him participating in the next presidential race.
