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⚠️ 🇧🇷 What was Flávio Bolsonaro facing in Brazil before he disappeared?
A new New York Times investigation details two separate financial inquiries involving Brazil's defeated presidential candidate, who left the country after the Supreme Court ordered him to surrender his passports.
The first concerns his relationship with Brazilian lawyer Willer Tomaz, who is suspected of involvement in a money-laundering scheme exceeding $1 billion, connected to online gambling and financial transactions. According to the NYT, court documents reviewed by the newspaper establish Bolsonaro's links to the investigation.
The second involves Daniel Vorcaro, the former Banco Master banker at the center of a major Brazilian financial scandal, and millions of dollars raised to finance Dark Horse, a biographical film about Jair Bolsonaro.
Brazilian Federal Police documents previously reported by Folha de S.Paulo identify Flávio as a direct intermediary in negotiations with Vorcaro over financing for the film. Investigators have also examined transfers of funds to the United States and whether the money ultimately served purposes other than the film's production.
Those inquiries are separate, and neither establishes that Bolsonaro personally laundered the sums attributed to the broader schemes.
He has not been criminally charged in either investigation and denies wrongdoing.
The timing, however, has become central to the case.
On Monday, Bolsonaro publicly said he would comply with the Supreme Court's passport order and insisted he had never considered leaving Brazil. By Tuesday, he had missed the deadline, Brazilian authorities had canceled his travel documents, and U.S. officials were confirming plans to grant visas to him and his family.
The New York Times reports that even some of his closest political allies did not know his whereabouts.
The Washington Post separately reports that Bolsonaro feared imminent arrest over the financial investigations.
His departure now raises two distinct questions: whether he left Brazil to avoid potential legal consequences, and how the Trump administration's decision to facilitate his entry into the United States may affect Brazil's efforts to pursue those investigations.
The first is a question of motive that investigators have yet to establish. The second is already becoming a diplomatic confrontation between Washington and Brasília.
