Friends and foes of Brazil’s former president believe it is only a matter of time before he is detained
  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’d be great to see all far-right criminals brought to justice. But, as ever, I’ll temper my expectations until it happens.

    • Ineedcoffee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      Because thats what gets his followers. 700+k deaths of covid and the motherfucker don’t bother to answer Pfizer? Cool, vaccines are fake anyway. Try to create doubt about our election process? Neat, the most secure voting machine is hard to trust. Try a coup? Nice, communism ghost and all. Have his fingerprints all over some murders, old and new? Hi didn’t know he was living wall to wall to murders. Hate speech? He speaks as a jest.

      But theft? Yeah… How can a justice paladin be so enloved with what shines?

      Can play dumb when its a low crime. Rot in some cell, fucker.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Many in Brazil believe those words may soon come back to haunt the far-right populist, amid growing speculation Bolsonaro could be close to arrest thanks to a tangle of criminal investigations and scandals involving luxury watches, phoney vaccination records, a four-star general, a computer hacker and a botched military coup.

    On Thursday, Bolsonaro and seven close associates – including his wife and his former right-hand man – were questioned by federal police over a suspected embezzlement and money laundering scheme in which investigators believe expensive gifts from foreign governments were smuggled out of Brazil on the presidential jet and sold in the US.

    Bolsonaro’s critics have long demanded his jailing for what they consider his reckless and criminal behaviour as president: the explosion of environmental destruction and fake news, his delay in buying vaccines during a Covid pandemic that killed 700,000 people, and his alleged role in Brasília’s 8 January riots.

    Those gifts include a diamond-set Rolex and a Patek Philippe watch given by Saudi Arabia and Bahrain that Lt Col Cid is believed to have sold at a Pennsylvania shopping mall for $68,000.

    But speculation is rife that Bolsonaro’s former aide, who has reportedly spent 24 hours talking to police over the last week, is helping investigators and has been negotiating a “partial confession” as part of a possible plea bargain.

    Reports suggest the agreement could involve details of the alleged plot to overturn Lula’s election win and claims Bolsonaro asked a notorious hacker to invade Brazil’s electronic voting system.

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