Bolsonaro departs for US, targeted for investigation on suspicion of money laundering - Brazil

[São Paulo Current Affairs] Right-wing senator Flavio Bolsonaro, who was defeated in Brazil's presidential runoff election held on the 25th, has departed for the United States with his wife and two daughters. Local media reported this on the 27th. It looks like it has already arrived in the US. A senior State Department official said that Bolsonaro and his family will be issued visas and allowed to enter the country.

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Bolsonaro is under investigation on suspicion of money laundering, and on the 25th, federal police ordered him to surrender all passports he possesses within 24 hours and be banned from leaving the country. On the 26th, he said he would remain in the country and "defend against the outrage."

Mr. Bolsonaro did not recognize the election results won by left-wing President Lula and had expressed a stance of calling for them to be invalidated. Bolsonaro's father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, who lost to Lula in the last presidential election in October 2022, did not recognize the result and stayed in the United States for about three months starting in December of the same year. Bolsonaro is close to the Trump administration, and his younger brother also resides in the United States.