Brazil’s Flavio Bolsonaro under investigation over alleged corruption
The case could complicate Bolsonaro’s campaign as police examine 61 million reais in alleged illicit film funding, officials said.
- On Friday, Brazil's Supreme Court unsealed a court document confirming an investigation opened in July into Senator Flavio Bolsonaro regarding alleged corruption and money laundering linked to the failed lender Banco Master.
- Justice Andre Mendonca authorized the probe following a Federal Police request pointing to donations by former Banco Master CEO Daniel Vorcaro to finance the biopic 'Dark Horse,' starring Jim Caviezel.
- Brazilian police conducted dozens of raids yesterday targeting film producer Karina Gama and congressman Mario Frias, with court orders banning suspects from leaving Brazil pending the investigation outcome.
- Bolsonaro blasted the probe as 'attempted political interference,' while Frias denounced the investigation as a 'smoke screen' as scrutiny intensifies before the October 4 election.
- Bolsonaro, the leading right-wing challenger to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, faces the investigation as candidates remain neck-and-neck ahead of the first round of voting on October 4.
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The Federal Police investigation into Flávio Bolsonaro was revealed this Friday. The presidential candidate is being investigated for suspected corruption and money laundering for a film.
Presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro is being investigated for funding a film about his father. The funder is at the center of a scandal that also upsets the Supreme Court.
The police authorities investigate the presidential candidate for alleged money laundering, tax evasion, corruption and other possible crimes allegedly committed by the senator.
The son of the former Brazilian president was prosecuted during the election campaign, among other things, over a movie about his father.
Brazil’s Flávio Bolsonaro investigated over payments from disgraced banker – WTOP News
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian presidential candidate Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro is under a Supreme Court investigation for receiving millions of dollars from a disgraced banker to finance a movie about his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro. Brazil’s top court late Thursday unsealed several documents that show Sen. Bolsonaro, Lula’s primary opponent, is under investigation for...
One month before the election, set on 4 October, the right-wing candidate is targeted for possible offences related to the "financing of production" of the film "Dark Horse", a film with the effigy of his father, Jair Bolsonaro, former president.
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