FHC's family seeks investigation after video shows former president with Alzheimer's inside his apartment

Wesley Oliveira, who presents himself as a journalist, published a video touring the São Paulo apartment of former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso. The footage showed furniture, paintings, personal objects, and the bed used by the former president. Oliveira also sat in the chair used by Cardoso in an office inside the apartment.

The apartment is located in the Chopin building on Rio de Janeiro Street in the Higienópolis neighborhood. Oliveira held a Heineken beer can during the tour and showed a Mole chair he said is worth 70,000 reais. He also presented a painting he identified as an original work by French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

“CASO FHC. Absurd without measure. Disrespect for the historical figure. Privacy violation. Creation of theft risk. Besides exposing the intimacy and vulnerabilities of the former president, this clueless element gave thieves of artworks the map of the way.”

Cardoso is 95 years old and has advanced Alzheimer's disease. He underwent a judicial interdiction process in April 2026 at the request of family members. The video showed the former president in a vulnerable condition.

The three children of Fernando Henrique Cardoso turned to the Public Ministry of São Paulo to request a criminal investigation into the publication of the recordings. Jurist and Public Ministry member Vladimir Aras called the disclosure an "absurd without measure" and warned that the images could create a theft risk by revealing valuable artworks and objects.

Oliveira said the recordings were authorized by Cardoso's current partner, Patrícia Kundrát, aged 48. He defended the publication as a historical record of the former president's trajectory and denied it was a disrespectful exposure of his health condition.

The videos were removed from Instagram after the publication caused outrage on social media. Poder360 decided not to publish the videos, stating there is no public interest in images of a former president who cannot currently authorize such publication himself.

The FHC Foundation, located on Formosa Street, 367 in central São Paulo, said it would not comment on the episode.