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The audit was launched on October 4, the day of the first round of the 2026 Brazilian elections, after a request from the State Attorney General based on an article in The Guardian on US funding for a project critical of the Brazilian Supreme Court.
The Brazilian Federal Police has closed the investigation into alleged US interference in the 2026 elections, deeming insufficient elements to open a formal investigation. This was reported by CNN Brasil.
The verification was started on October 4, the day of the first round, after a request from the State Attorney General (Agu), presented on the basis of an article in the British newspaper The Guardian on US funding for a project critical of the Brazilian Supreme Court.
The director general of the Federal Police, Andrei Rodrigues, had defined the initiative as a preliminary proceeding. The project cited by The Guardian provided resources for organizations working against what they described as abuses of judicial power and censorship by the Supreme Court. The president of the Superior Electoral Tribunal, Kassio Nunes Marques, had already declared during the vote that he had received no concrete indications of foreign interference.

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