Operation "Make Up": judge bans travel and communications for 29 suspects

Supreme Court Justice Flavio Dino barred the 29 recipients of search warrants issued as part of Operation “Make Up” from leaving Brazil without authorization and imposed a ban on them communicating with each other. Among those interested is MP Mario Frias, from Flávio Bolsonaro's Liberal Party (PL), as well as some of his collaborators and the entrepreneur Karina Gama, producer of the film "Dark Horse", about the political career of former president Jair Bolsonaro.

The Federal Police is investigating the use of 2 million reais (around 334 thousand euros) allocated by Frias, a 54-year-old former actor, through funds given by the government to the Conhecer Brasil Institute, of which 1 million reais (around 167 thousand euros) was intended for an entrepreneurship program which, according to investigators, would never have been implemented.

The Federal Police is executing 49 search and seizure warrants in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Ceará and the Federal District. Furthermore, according to O Globo, Marcello de Oliveira Lopes, former communications manager of Flávio Bolsonaro's presidential campaign, transferred one million reais (around 167 thousand euros) to the film's producer at the end of 2025.

Lopes claims that it was a private investment.