Court gives Bolsonaro 5 days to hand over Saudi jewels
AFP
March 15, 2023 3 min
Brasília – A Brazilian court ruled Wednesday ex-president Jair Bolsonaro has five days to hand over pricey jewelry he received as a present from Saudi Arabia, and ordered an audit of all official gifts during his presidency.
The Federal Court of Accounts (TCU), which oversees the government coffers, also ordered the far-right ex-army captain to hand over to the presidential palace collection two guns he received as presents from the United Arab Emirates in 2019.
Under Brazilian law, public officials can only keep gifts that are “both highly personal and of minimal monetary value,” said the court’s president, Bruno Dantas, in a public hearing, giving Bolsonaro “five days to return all items involved in this case to… the rightful owner, the presidential palace.”
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The episode has turned into a legal and political headache for the ex-president, who is currently in the United States and expected to return soon to Brazil, hoping to lead the opposition to his leftist successor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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