The Brazilian Federal Police are considering arresting former President Jair Bolsonaro, a US refugee, if he does not return to Brazil and present himself to the authorities by April next year. Bolsonaro is the subject of dozens of investigations in Brazil, and precisely because he was afraid of being arrested, he fled to the United States on December 30, 2022, a day before the end of his presidential term and the end of the immunity that the position gave him. gave.
The arrest request, which is being considered by the Federal Police, is related to the scandal of millionaire gifts sent by Saudi Arabia to Jair Bolsonaro and his wife Michelle Bolsonaro for many millions of euros, including women’s jewelry such as a necklace and a diamond. earrings, both gold and men’s, such as watches, pens, and other goods made from the same minerals. A suitcase of jewelry for Michel, worth at least three million euros, was confiscated at São Paulo airport when a military adviser tried to pass with gifts without declaring them at customs, but the suitcase with men’s jewelry, not yet valued, was personally delivered to Bolsonaro, who kept his.
By law, gifts worth more than 938 euros, according to a quote this Friday, given to the President of Brazil, should be included in the collection of the President of the Republic and become part of the assets of the state, but Jair Bolsonaro kept the jewelry case masculine and also tried to stay with feminine jewelry.
Firstly, the former head of state stated in the US that he was not aware of any gift of this kind, but with mounting evidence, he publicly stated a few days ago that the gold and diamond jewelry sent by the Saudi government to Arabia were personal gifts for him, not for Brazil, so don’t return them.
The scandal, which erupted two weeks ago, poses Jair Bolsonaro’s greatest risk of arrest, despite facing dozens of other lawsuits in the Federal Supreme Court and the High Electoral Court. The fact is that in political and electoral processes, Bolsonaro’s participation and possible guilt depend on legal and political interpretations, while in the case of jewelry, the personal, direct and deliberate participation of the former president, who received and wrongfully took possession of the jewelry, is offered to the country he represented in that time, which makes him an undisputed defendant in an ordinary and non-political crime subject to interpretation
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This Correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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