Brasilia, Dec 27 (Prensa Latina) Silvinei Vasques, the former chief of Brazil's highway police and convicted of attempted coup, is now under Brazilian federal custody, after being handed over by Paraguay following his arrest while trying to flee to El Salvador.

Official sources confirmed that Vasques, former director of the Federal Highway Police (PRF), was handed over by Paraguayan authorities at the Friendship Bridge.

The former PRF director was arrested at the Silvio Pettirossi International Airport in Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, where he was attempting to board an international flight to El Salvador, using falsified documents, Paraguayan authorities stated.

After his capture, he was escorted by masked Paraguayan agents to the handover point. He was later received by officers of the Brazilian Federal Police (PF) and transported without a hood in an official vehicle.

The operation was launched when the PF detected a loss of signal from the electronic ankle monitor Vasques was required to wear. A team went to his home but did not find him.

From that moment on, he was placed in pretrial detention by order of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Supreme Federal Court (STF).

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