Brazil: defeated Flávio Bolsonaro ordered to give up passports | Brazil

The far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro was banned from leaving Brazil and ordered to give up his passports simply hours after his dramatic loss within the presidential election to the leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The ruling was issued by supreme court docket justice Alexandre de Moraes, the identical justice who oversaw the trial of the senator’s father, the previous president Jair Bolsonaro, for making an attempt a coup.

Bolsonaro posted a video saying the choice was primarily based on an interview his brother, Eduardo Bolsonaro, gave final Friday urging his brother to go away Brazil if he misplaced the election.

The temporary ruling, nevertheless, solely refers to a prison case by which the federal police are investigating Flávio Bolsonaro over his potential involvement in a money-laundering scheme. The ruling orders him to not have any contact along with his good friend Willer Tomaz, a lawyer linked to betting firms that police suspect have been getting used to launder about £680m.

It additionally cancelled all of Bolsonaro’s passports, together with the diplomatic one he holds as a congressman, and ordered him handy them over inside 24 hours.

Bolsonaro was the primary to talk publicly concerning the matter, earlier than Brazilian media have been even conscious of the decide’s choice.

In a video posted on social media, he stated he had simply left a go to to his father, who’s below home arrest in Brasília, when “Lula’s federal police have been at his door and in the midst of the road, and I used to be served with an order handy over my passports and I’m additionally prohibited from leaving the nation”.

He added that, though his brother – who’s in self-imposed exile within the US – told a US podcast on Friday that he favoured the senator leaving Brazil if he misplaced the election, “I by no means stated that”.

When his Senate time period ends early subsequent yr, Bolsonaro can be out of public workplace for the primary time in 24 years, and due to this fact with out the particular jurisdiction afforded to officeholders.

He is below investigation in one other prison case, too, over what occurred to the £20m he was captured on tape asking a disgraced banker accused of corruption to supply for a biopic about his father.

Like Jair Bolsonaro 4 years in the past, the senator has nonetheless not conceded defeat to Lula.

The Folha de S.Paulo newspaper additionally reported that Flávio Bolsonaro had been persuaded to drop his plan to hunt to annul the election, which he had introduced after the outcome was declared on Sunday evening.

Bolsonaro had claimed that the two-hour extension of voting – meant to permit voters who had been unable to entry the obligatory free public transport to solid their ballots – had harmed the election, although his personal marketing campaign had additionally argued for an extension.

According to the newspaper, allies and legal professionals instructed him his argument was legally weak.

Bolsonaro had nonetheless not publicly reversed his demand for an annulment, and in the identical video he stated he would file one other case to have Lula’s ticket disqualified over alleged abuse of financial energy, the same case to others his authorized crew introduced in the course of the marketing campaign.