00:02Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has left Brazil for the United States after his election defeat
00:07to Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva, an ally of the senator told media on Tuesday.
00:13Bolsonaro's passports had been cancelled on Tuesday as rumors had said that he had fled Brazil.
00:19Bolsonaro was ordered by the Supreme Court on Monday to hand over his passports to police
00:24within 24 hours as part of a money laundering investigation which he denies.
00:30Bolsonaro agreed with his legal team that he would comply with the order
00:34and that he would deliver the documents to authorities on Tuesday morning,
00:38but he failed to do so by Tuesday afternoon.
00:41Rogério Mourinho, Bolsonaro's general campaign coordinator, has denied that Bolsonaro has left Brazil.
00:48On Friday, two days before the second round of the presidential elections,
00:52Bolsonaro's brother Eduardo argued that he should leave Brazil if he were defeated.
00:57Eduardo has been living in the U.S. since 2025 after being sentenced to prison for coercion
01:04in the case involving his father, Jair Bolsonaro, and his attempts to overturn the results of the 2022 election.
01:12Bolsonaro initially refused to recognize Lula's victory,
01:16saying it was impossible to acknowledge the results and that the election should have been annulled.
01:21Salvador, Gustavo Vila Toro.
