AP Explains: The investigations around Bolsonaro's son

[Judi Lynn]

Diane Jeantet, Associated Press
Updated 6:45 pm CST, Thursday, December 19, 2019



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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro waves tot he crowd during a Christmas celebration with staff and students at the Planalto Presidential Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, son of President Jair Bolsonaro, on Thursday accused “ill-intentioned" prosecutors of persecuting his family, one day after they searched a chocolate shop he co-owns as part of an investigation into allegedly suspicious financial movements.

The senator has denied any wrongdoing, but news reports on the investigation have cast a pall over his father's first year in office after winning election with pledges to end endemic corruption. Here's a look at the investigations around the Bolsonaro family.

WHAT IS FLAVIO BOLSONARO BEING INVESTIGATED FOR?

Rio de Janeiro state prosecutors are pursuing two investigations linked to the senator.

The first grew from a report by a financial regulator that flagged irregular payments involving Fabrício Queiroz, who at the time was a driver for Flávio Bolsonaro when he was a state lawmaker. The investigation also involves allegations that the senator may have hired phantom employees as part of his legislative staff who then kicked back part of their salaries.

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Flávio Bolsonaro, brandishing his handguns, just like Daddy.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Brazil: homes of Bolsonaro associates raided in sweeping anti-corruption operation

Investigators examining Bolsonaro’s senator son Flávio, suspected of overseeing corruption racket during tenure as Rio congressman

Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent

Wed 18 Dec 2019 11.14 ESTLast modified on Wed 18 Dec 2019 12.02 EST


Investigators have raided the home of a longstanding friend and associate of the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, as well as addresses linked to Bolsonaro’s son and ex-wife, in the latest phase of a politically damaging corruption investigation embroiling his family.

The operation – part of an embezzlement and money-laundering inquiry focusing on one of Bolsonaro’s three politician sons, Flávio – dominated Brazilian front pages on Wednesday and came as a major embarrassment to the rightwing populist who was elected promising to stamp out corruption.

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Reports in the Brazilian press have also linked Flávio Bolsonaro to members of a notorious death squad one local broadsheet has called Rio’s “most lethal and secretive phalanx of hired guns”.

Jair Bolsonaro’s opponents expressed delight at Wednesday’s raids – a sign, they speculated, that the net was closing in on a family with increasingly well-documented social ties to members of Rio’s mafia.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/18/bolsonaro-brazil-corruption-raids-investigation-flavio-bolsonaro