We Could Learn From Brazil
......how to handle crooks.
From The Guardian:
Brazil: defeated Flávio Bolsonaro ordered to surrender passports
Far-right senator banned from leaving country as supreme court judge’s ruling cites money-laundering case
By Tiago Rogero in Brasília
Mon 26 Oct 2026 19.02 EDT
The far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro was banned from leaving Brazil and ordered to surrender his passports just hours after his dramatic loss in the presidential election to the leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The ruling was issued by Alexandre de Moraes, the same supreme court justice who oversaw the trial of the senator’s father, the former president Jair Bolsonaro, for attempting a coup.
The court’s brief ruling regarding his passport only refers to a criminal case in which the federal police are investigating Flávio Bolsonaro over his possible involvement in a money-laundering scheme. The ruling orders him not to have any contact with his friend Willer Tomaz, a lawyer linked to betting companies that police suspect were being used to launder about £680m.
It also cancelled all of Bolsonaro’s passports, including the diplomatic one he holds as a congressman, and ordered him to hand them over within 24 hours.
He is under investigation in another criminal case, too, over what happened to the £20m he was captured on tape asking a disgraced banker accused of corruption to provide for a biopic about his father.
Edited for content. Read the entire article here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/26/flavio-bolsonaro-brazil-lula-election?CMP=GTUS_email
From The Guardian:
Brazil: defeated Flávio Bolsonaro ordered to surrender passports
Far-right senator banned from leaving country as supreme court judge’s ruling cites money-laundering case
By Tiago Rogero in Brasília
Mon 26 Oct 2026 19.02 EDT
The far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro was banned from leaving Brazil and ordered to surrender his passports just hours after his dramatic loss in the presidential election to the leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The ruling was issued by Alexandre de Moraes, the same supreme court justice who oversaw the trial of the senator’s father, the former president Jair Bolsonaro, for attempting a coup.
The court’s brief ruling regarding his passport only refers to a criminal case in which the federal police are investigating Flávio Bolsonaro over his possible involvement in a money-laundering scheme. The ruling orders him not to have any contact with his friend Willer Tomaz, a lawyer linked to betting companies that police suspect were being used to launder about £680m.
It also cancelled all of Bolsonaro’s passports, including the diplomatic one he holds as a congressman, and ordered him to hand them over within 24 hours.
He is under investigation in another criminal case, too, over what happened to the £20m he was captured on tape asking a disgraced banker accused of corruption to provide for a biopic about his father.
Edited for content. Read the entire article here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/26/flavio-bolsonaro-brazil-lula-election?CMP=GTUS_email
