Brazil Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered on Monday the seizure of Flávio Bolsonaro’s passports and forbade the conservative Senator from leaving the country.
\n\nThe order comes just hours after Sunday’s presidential runoff election in which Bolsonaro lost against socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
\n\nGlobonews reports that Justice de Moraes signed the court order on Sunday, the day of the runoff election. In the order, de Moraes justified the seizure of Bolsonaro’s passports by alleging that the measure is part of a probe involving the senator and Brazilian lawyer Willer Tomaz regarding money laundering allegations involving Tomaz’s betting companies. Globonews pointed out that Bolsonaro and Tomaz have acknowledged being friends, but both have denied being business partners and have rejected the allegations.
\n\nBy order of de Moraes, Bolsonaro was instructed to relinquish his now-cancelled regular Brazilian passport and the diplomatic passport issued to him as an elected senator. Additionally, the justice ordered that Bolsonaro must relinquish any other foreign passports that he may be in possession of, while also forbidding him from communicating with Willer Tomaz.
\n\nIn a video published on his official Instagram account, Sen. Bolsonaro detailed that he received the order to relinquish…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/
