Brazil prosecutors open money-laundering probe into president's son

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS FEBRUARY 21, 2019 / 3:54 PM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

Brazil prosecutors open money-laundering probe into president's son

Ricardo Brito
3 MIN READ

BRASILIA (Reuters) - The senator son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is under investigation by federal authorities for money laundering in connection to unexplained increases in his net worth, the prosecutor general’s office said on Thursday.

Federal prosecutors said this month that an accusation of money laundering had been raised against Senator Flavio Bolsonaro in connection with at least two luxury apartments he purchased in Rio de Janeiro.

The press office for the prosecutor general did not provide more details. A spokeswoman for Flavio Bolsonaro said he was innocent of any wrongdoing and “is the victim of political persecution and repudiates the attempt to ascribe wrongdoing and crimes that do not exist.”

Flavio Bolsonaro has been dogged by multiple corruption allegations that are sullying the law-and-order image his father rode to an easy presidential election last year.

Flavio Bolsonaro had refused to meet with Rio de Janeiro state prosecutors to be questioned for related accusations. But he will not be able to avoid the far more powerful federal prosecutors, who have spearheaded Brazil’s unprecedented anti-corruption drive of recent years.

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[Firestorm49]

1. The parallels are uncanny.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Yes. Why has the whole world fallen for the same shit all at once?

[sandensea]

4. Sounds like the rest of the world got the Powell Memo

The use of wedge issues and identity politics to radicalize enough voters to the point no reforms - no matter how modest or needed - are possible.

Although, and as Argentina's Macri can tell you, any president that uses that opportunity to take trickle-down policies too far, does so at the risk of disaster.

[Firestorm49]

2. I didn't do it! I didn't do it! I didn't do it!

Blah, blah, blah.

[keithbvadu2]

5. What is 'Donald Jr' in Portuguese?

What is 'Donald Jr' in Portuguese?