Former Aide to Bolsonaro’s Son Arrested in Brazil Probe
- Queiroz found at property of presidential family lawyer
- Separate probes also encroach on the president and his allies
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A police investigation closed in on President Jair Bolsonaro’s family with the arrest of a former aide to one of his sons, fueling political tensions that are already running high in Latin America’s largest economy.
Police are probing Fabricio Queiroz’s participation in an alleged corruption plan involving the appropriation of salaries from employees of Flavio Bolsonaro’s office while he was a lawmaker in the Rio de Janeiro state legislature for more than a decade. The investigation has been confirmed by public prosecutors and its contents have been published in a series of reports by the local media.