The Brazilian police searched Jair Bolsonaro’s home in Brasilia over suspicions that he could have falsified his Covid-19 vaccination data to enter the US. As a part of the operation, the police seized the cellphones of Bolsonaro and his spouse and arrested a few of his shut associates.
Bolsonaro denies wrongdoing; opposes vaccines and retains vaccination data non-public. He has unfold false data on the vaccine and its alleged unwanted side effects.
Below the brand new authorities of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, an official deemed Bolsonaro’s vaccination report a matter of public curiosity, revealing that he had been vaccinated in 2021. Nevertheless, police suspect the report could have been falsified and carried out a search of his house on Wednesday.
Federal police suspect that “false information” was added to the Brazilian Ministry of Well being’s Covid-19 vaccination data to allow people to acquire vaccination certificates for entry into the USA. Bolsonaro denied altering any data throughout a press release following the search. He informed reporters, “I didn’t falsify something on my behalf.”
Bolsonaro claims he did not obtain the Covid vaccine. False information was supposedly added to the data whereas he was nonetheless president between November and December of final 12 months, across the time he travelled to Florida. Lula da Silva was inaugurated shortly after.
Throughout his go to, the US hasn’t commented on Bolsonaro’s visa or vaccination data. Upon returning to Brazil on March thirtieth, Bolsonaro needed to seem earlier than the police twice in reference to two separate investigations.
One investigation is relating to his alleged involvement within the storming of the Brazilian Congress by his supporters in January, whereas the opposite is relating to his potential unlawful import and possession of high-priced jewelry gifted to him and his spouse by Saudi Arabia in 2019.