Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), ordered this Tuesday (16) that the defense of former president Jair Messias Bolsonaro provide clarification, within 24 hours, about a firearm owned by Bolsonaro seized in a raid by the Military Police of the Federal District (PMDF) last night (15). The former president has been under house arrest since March 24, when he left the DF Star Hospital, in Brasília, after being admitted to treat bacterial pneumonia. Related news: STF decides whether Eduardo Bolsonaro will be convicted in the tariff process. Operation in SP investigates the NGO of the producer of the film about Bolsonaro. Moraes holds prison for those convicted of the murder of Marielle Franco. According to Moraes' decision, the weapon was seized at 11:30 pm last Monday (15), when a Honda Civic was stopped at a blockade point in Pitão Norte, in Taguatinga. During the approach, the driver identified himself as a member of the Institutional Security Office of the Presidency of the Republic (GSI) and said that the weapon belonged to the former president. During the raid, a spare pistol magazine, a Glock 9 millimeter (mm) model, was also located. The driver was taken to a police station, where he stated that the weapon was given to him due to a breakdown. In his statement, he also reported that he removed the pistol on the 15th in order to carry out the repair and that the weapon would be returned the following day. >> Follow the Agência Brasil channel on WhatsApp In the decision, Moraes asks Bolsonaro's defense to clarify the reason why the former president kept a firearm at home, with a spare magazine, and why, on the eve of the end of the 90-day period granted as humanitarian house arrest, the convict requested repairs to the weapon. The minister also asks Lieutenant Colonel Allenson Nascimento Lopes, commander of the 19th Battalion of the PMDF and responsible for the security measures of the humanitarian home regime, to clarify whether the court order to search cars leaving Bolsonaro's residence - including official vehicles that provide security for the former president - is being fully complied with. Before the decision that authorized house arrest, Bolsonaro was serving a sentence in the 19th Military Police Battalion, in the Papuda Penitentiary Complex, in Brasília. The place is known as Papudinha. Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years and 3 months in prison in the criminal prosecution of the coup plot.