Flávio Bolsonaro was elected to the Senate in 2018. Between 2011 and 2016, Queiroz funnelled thousands of dollars to the president’s wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, in transactions neither of them can explain. Since then, other legislative and criminal investigations have put the Bolsonaro family on the defensive. Unlike her husband and Flávio Bolsonaro, she is not an elected official, which deprives her of the protections from prosecution that they enjoy. Just how politically damaging the case will be for Bolsonaro in the long run is unclear, analysts say.

Source: bd News24 August 29, 2020 10:18 UTC