BRAZIL’S Supreme Court convicted former lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro on Tuesday for coercion related to the trial that last year sentenced his father and ex-president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for a coup attempt.

The court sentenced him to four years and two months in prison. All five justices considering the case agreed he illegally interfered by lobbying the United States government to threaten Brazilian officials to stop the trial.

Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who also oversaw the former president’s coup attempt case, said Eduardo Bolsonaro’s job as a federal lawmaker “is not to lobby overseas against his own country.”

Justice de Moraes and his wife were sanctioned by the US government in July last year.

Lawyers for Eduardo Bolsonaro disputed the verdict, saying there was not enough evidence to convict him. The former lawmaker has lived in Texas since February 2025.

US President Donald Trump slapped Brazil with a 50 per cent tariff last year in protest at Jair Bolsonaro’s prosecution for trying to overturn his electoral defeat to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in 2022.

Eduardo Bolsonaro did not comment on the Supreme Court’s decision.

His brother, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, is expected to challenge Lula in October’s presidential elections.

Eduardo and Flavio Bolsonaro recently met with President Trump in Washington.