Flavio Bolsonaro Posts Video, Says He Fled Brazil Due to ‘Persecution’
Flavio Bolsonaro said he left secretly after his passports were revoked in a money-laundering probe, deepening tensions around the Bolsonaro family.
- Former conservative presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro fled Brazil for the United States, arriving in Florida on Wednesday after traveling through Argentina and Ecuador.
- Monday's notification that police revoked his passports for a money-laundering investigation prompted the senator's decision to flee Brazil.
- During an Instagram livestream, Bolsonaro stated, "The persecution began even sooner than I imagined," while his father Jair Bolsonaro was jailed last year for his self-coup attempt.
- Argentine President Javier Milei and the United States administration face mounting pressure to explain potential involvement in the senator's escape through Argentina and Ecuador.
- Bolsonaro claims the economy will "go bust" under President Luiz Inacio Lula and insists, "I didn't leave Brazil, I left for Brazil," signaling willingness to run for president again.
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Flavio Bolsonaro posts video, says he fled Brazil due to ‘persecution’
Brazil's defeated right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro posted a video message on social media late Friday to declare he fled to the US because he was a victim of 'persecution'. Bolsonaro, who lost Sunday's election runoff to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, gave no details of how he left the country.
The former right-wing candidate for the presidential elections in Brazil, Flavio Bolsonaro, who fled his country on a private plane after defeat and took refuge in the United States, justified his departure on Friday by invoking a "political persecution," writes AFP. "The persecution began even earlier than I imagined," the senator said in a statement.
Flávio Bolsonaro commented on his escape on Friday but did not say how he managed to leave Brazil despite the travel ban.
The defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro says he left his homeland because he is persecuted, AFP reports. Bolsonaro arrived in Miami, USA, earlier this week, together with his family. "The persecution started even earlier than I had imagined," he said in a live broadcast on Instagram. Bolsonaro is being investigated for money laundering and corruption in his homeland. In the live broadcast, he also seems open to trying to b…
Flávio Bolsonaro, the loser in the Brazilian presidential election, claims that he left his homeland for the United States because he was persecuted.
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