Brazil Orders Flávio Bolsonaro to Surrender Passports
60 sourcesUpdated Oct 27, 20261 min read
Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro reportedly left Brazil for the United States after losing the presidential election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, though his whereabouts and how he may have departed remain unconfirmed. He missed a Supreme Court deadline to surrender his passports under an order barring him from leaving Brazil and restricting contact with a lawyer under investigation in a money-laundering case; police canceled his passports and are reportedly searching for him. The order is also tied to investigations into alleged corruption and foreign campaign funding, which Bolsonaro denies. He has described the travel restriction as intimidation; he initially called for the election result to be annulled, while his party accepted Lula’s victory. His reported departure comes as he faces the loss of parliamentary protections and echoes his father Jair Bolsonaro’s flight to the United States after his 2022 defeat; Jair Bolsonaro was later sentenced to 27 years for plotting a coup.
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This passport surrender looks like a routine step in a money laundering case, not political persecution.
