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Defeated Brazilian candidate Flavio Bolsonaro's passports cancelled, whereabouts unknown

Defeated Brazilian candidate Flavio Bolsonaro's passports cancelled, whereabouts unknown

Summary

Brazil cancelled Senator Flavio Bolsonaro’s passports after he missed a Supreme Court deadline to surrender them in a money laundering investigation. Police said they are trying to locate him; his whereabouts remain unknown, and officials reported no evidence that he entered Argentina through regular channels.

Key Facts

  • Bolsonaro denies wrongdoing in the money laundering probe.
  • A court gave him 24 hours on Monday to turn in his passports.
  • Federal police sources said the deadline passed and his passports were cancelled on Tuesday.
  • Argentina said it had no record of Bolsonaro entering the country and found no flight plan listing his family on a plane checked at Iguazu International Airport.
  • A senior Brazilian police official said Bolsonaro had not left Brazil through a regular migration point.
  • Bolsonaro lost Sunday's presidential runoff to incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
  • Bolsonaro has not officially conceded and said he would seek to annul the result over alleged voter irregularities; his Liberal Party acknowledged Lula's victory.
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