Flavio Bolsonaro denies fleeing to US after passport seizure

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Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro reportedly left Brazil for the United States via Argentina, according to Argentine media, one day after a Supreme Court justice ordered him to surrender his passports and banned him from leaving the country. The report from Infobae claims Bolsonaro crossed the border into Argentina using an ID document and planned to board a private Gulfstream G400 jet from Puerto Iguazú bound for the U.S. His campaign coordinator denied the claim, while federal police are investigating the alleged border crossing and flight. The court order stems from an investigation into Bolsonaro and a lawyer over alleged financial irregularities and money laundering, which the senator denies. He has criticized the travel ban and plans to contest the judicial decision.


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