Flavio Bolsonaro flees Brazil for US amid investigation — reports
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Flavio Bolsonaro is reportedly on the way to the US, according to reports citing people close to the senator. Bolsonaro's passports were canceled earlier Tuesday.
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Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has left the country for the United States after he was defeated in Sunday's presidential election, Folha de S.Paulo and Reuters reported, citing sources close to the senator.
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The Supreme Court had asked Flavio Bolsonaro, the eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, to surrender his passports to stop him from leaving the country amid investigations into the senator.
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It was reported that Bolsonaro had refused to comply with the order, although other reports contradicted this.
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The AFP news agency cited a police official as saying that Bolsonaro's passports had been cancelled and there was no official record of him leaving the country.
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Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported that Bolsonaro's plane was scheduled to land in either Miami or Dallas.
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The news came after Brazilians spent the day on social media asking where the former presidential candidate was.
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Argentine news outlet Infobae reported earlier today that Bolsonaro had crossed into Argentina to board a plane to the US.
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A spokesperson for Argentina's Ministry of Security denied the reports that the conservative Brazilian senator had entered the country.
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Brazilian media reports earlier said that the federal police were still searching for him.
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Bolsonaro lost Brazil's presidential election runoff on Sunday after an incredibly tight voting count through the eveninguntil his challenger, incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, surged ahead.
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Bolsonaro had initially said he would seek to annul the election results, citing alleged irregularities.But Bolsonaro's Liberal Party on Tuesday acknowledged the results.
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In a video on Instagram on Monday, Bolsonaro said he had been served with an order to hand over his passports so he couldn't leave the country.
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He had said he was planning to hand over his passports but reports on Tuesday said the deadline had passed leading to their cancellation.
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The senator has been accused of laundering money through a sports betting company, money that was deducted from government pensions to senior citizens.
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A second investigation is looking into Bolsonaro's connections to a disgraced banker from whom he allegedly accepted millions of dollars to finance the biopic about his father, titled "Dark Horse."
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Bolsonaro loses his immunity from prosecution once his Senate term comes to end in February 2027. He has denied wrongdoing in both cases.
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Bolsonaro said that he had received the Supreme Court order outside the home where his father, Jair Bolsonaro, citing alleged irregularities. following his 2022 election loss, also to Lula.
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He said the order was issued by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the same judge who sentenced his father to prison.
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He also pointed to comments made by his brother, Eduardo Bolsonaro, who said on a podcast last week that his sibling should leave the country if he lost the election.
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Eduardo, who lives in the US, was convicted in absentia in June of illegally lobbying the Trump administration. He was sentenced to four years in prison and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
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