Admar Gonzaga, Jair Renan Bolsonaro's lawyer, stated in a statement that a search and “seizure order was carried out at his client's residence” in Balneário Camboriú, Santa Catarina, in which a cell phone, a hard drive and notes were confiscated.
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“Renan was not taken for testimony or any other measure,” added Gonzaga, who expressed the surprise of the son of former president Bolsonaro (2019-2022) at the police operation.
In addition to Bolsonaro's 25-year-old son, the operation also targets his former shooting instructor, Maciel Carvalho, the main person under investigation, according to the local press.
Authorities are investigating possible crimes of embezzlement, document forgery, tax evasion, and money laundering.
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In total, the police carried out a preventive arrest order and five seizures in Brasília and Balneário Camboriú this Thursday.
A second arrest warrant was not carried out, with the suspect on the run from the authorities, said Leonardo Cardoso, director of the Department for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime of the Federal District (DF).
Without mentioning names, the DF Police sent a note to the AFP in which they assured that the investigation “pointed to the existence of a criminal association whose strategy to obtain undue economic advantage involves the insertion of a third party, 'frontman' or 'foreign man'. ', to hide the true owner of shell companies or 'ghost' companies”.
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Like his father, Jair Renan Bolsonaro, who started working in the office of a federal senator from Santa Catarina, has faced investigations in recent times.
In December 2021, the Federal Police summoned him to give testimony in an investigation into alleged bribe payments from businessmen to do business with the public administration.
In July, his father Bolsonaro was declared ineligible for eight years due to misinformation about the electoral system and has other investigations underway.
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In particular, he faces an increasing siege from the police in an investigation into the alleged embezzlement of jewelry received as official gifts during his government.
The other three children of the far-right former president, all politicians, were also protagonists of other judicial investigations.
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