Jair Bolsonaro’s brother and son accused of homophobia and fraud

The brother and youngest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro were charged this week in two separate cases: one before the Court of Justice of Sao Paulo and the other before the Court of Brasília. Angelo Guido Bolsonaro, 70, the former ruler’s older brother, is accused of homophobia and making threats, while Jair Renan Bolsonaro, the youngest son, 26, is accused of fraud and money laundering.

In Angelo’s case, Bolsonaro’s brother was involved in a violent episode while shopping at a supermarket in the city of El Dorado, where he lives, in the inland state of Sao Paulo, after accidentally bumping into a store employee, a 17-year-old boy. summer teenager.years old According to the police investigation, Angelo, showing himself as ill-timed as his politician brother, began shouting at the teenager, calling him, in other words, a homosexual, and calling on both of him to leave the store so that he could shout, solve the issue by beating him, ” like a man”.

In the case of Jair Renan, he is accused of financial fraud and money laundering using his event management company, which is already implicated in other charges. According to the case pending in Brasilia, Bolsonaro’s youngest son, the only one who does not hold an elected public office, falsified the balance sheet and real turnover of his company in order to obtain bank loans that were much higher than the real income would allow, and, what’s more, he didn’t pay.

Jair Renan often appears in the press accusing him of wrongdoing, but this is the first time he has been accused. Jair Renan, who lives a life of luxury and with expenses far exceeding his known income, has already been accused, among other things, of commissioning businessmen to organize meetings with his father while Bolsonaro was still president, as well as of exploiting his proximity to power for travel and stay. in luxury hotels without payment.