Brazilian President’s Son Charged with Embezzlement, Graft
Brazilian prosecutors again targeted the family of the country’s President Jair Bolsonaro, charging on Monday his son Flávio with embezzlement, money laundering and heading a criminal organization, local O Globo newspaper reported.
The Rio de Janeiro prosecutor reportedly said that the
Republican Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, together with his former adviser Fabrício
Queiroz, obtained “at least 2.7 million reals (US$ 480,700) in cash,” through a
criminal scheme.
While he was serving in the Rio de Janeiro state
legislature, the President's son allegedly organized and ran a corruption
scheme in which, as Reuters reported, “employees would kick back part of their
salary to him.”
O Globe cited excerpts from the 300-page indictment, saying
that Bolsonaro junior, who has been a partner in a chocolate store, received
1.6 million reals ($282,420) in cash which were “artificially inserted into the
company's equity.”
The investigators, according to the newspaper, have also
registered numerous irregularities in Bolsonaro’s purchase of real estates,
like apartments in Copacabana, Laranjeiras or Barra da Tijuca.
The newspaper described the Bolsonaros as a strong family
clan which deployed 102 people tied to them to different positions over the
last 28 years.
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