Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro flees to US after election loss

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Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has left Brazil for the United States after losing Sunday's presidential election and refusing to comply with a Supreme Court order to hand over his passports, two sources said. The senator, who lost to leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva with 48.2% of the vote, faces a money laundering probe he denies wrongdoing in. His departure threatens to deepen a rift between Brazil and the US, with Lula accusing Washington of colluding with the Bolsonaro family. It remains unclear how Flavio Bolsonaro exited Brazil, as a senior federal police official said he did not pass through any regular migration point. His father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, also fled to the US after losing in 2022 but later returned and received a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup.


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