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Brazil’s Flavio Bolsonaro under investigation over alleged corruption

Police say 61 million reais in donations from Banco Master’s former chief executive helped finance a film about Jair Bolsonaro and triggered the probe.

  • On Friday, Brazil's Supreme Court unsealed a court document confirming an investigation opened in July into Senator Flavio Bolsonaro regarding alleged corruption and money laundering linked to the failed lender Banco Master.
  • Justice Andre Mendonca authorized the probe following a Federal Police request pointing to donations by former Banco Master CEO Daniel Vorcaro to finance the biopic 'Dark Horse,' starring Jim Caviezel.
  • Brazilian police conducted dozens of raids yesterday targeting film producer Karina Gama and congressman Mario Frias, with court orders banning suspects from leaving Brazil pending the investigation outcome.
  • Bolsonaro blasted the probe as 'attempted political interference,' while Frias denounced the investigation as a 'smoke screen' as scrutiny intensifies before the October 4 election.
  • Bolsonaro, the leading right-wing challenger to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, faces the investigation as candidates remain neck-and-neck ahead of the first round of voting on October 4.
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(Updates with new order of declassification of documents) São Paulo, Sep 11 (EFE).- The electoral campaign in Brazil has entered the field of the unknown with the opening of an investigation for corruption against Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the main candidate of the opposition in the presidential elections of October, and a new attack in the [...] La entrada An investigation against Flávio Bolsonaro empantana the electoral campaign in Brazil was …

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The Brazilian Supreme Court and the federal police have launched a large-scale investigation into presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro for possible corruption and money laundering. A month before the presidential elections in Brazil, authorities are linking the challenger to current President Lula to multi-million dollar fraud. Documents released by the Supreme Court yesterday reveal that the eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro is …

·Hilversum, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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Declassified Supreme Court documents reveal investigation into senator over alleged money laundering and corruption

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The former president's son is also being investigated for funding a film about his father.

·Hungary
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Globo broke the news in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Thursday, September 10, 2026.
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