Jair Bolsonaro ordered to investigate a minister for irregularities with election funds

The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, ordered the federal police to investigate complaints involving the Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Gustavo Bebianno, in a supposed scheme to create candidates to receive election funds in the October elections.

In a television interview shortly before leaving the hospital on Wednesday, the president also denied the minister, who said that he had spoken to her on several occasions.

A little while before, the son of the president, the adviser of Rio de Janeiro Carlos Bolsonaro, he had already refused the minister on Twitter, and even che listened to an audio recording in which Bolsonaro apparently told Bebianno by phone that he could not speak of the complaints in question.

A newspaper survey Folha de S. Paulo revealed Sunday that the feast of Bolsonaro, the liberal social (PSL), created a series of nominations for the sole purpose of receiving election funds in the elections of October 2018, when Bebianno presided over the training.

Between them, the candidacy of a member of Pernambuco (north-east) who would have received 400,000 reales from the party's fund ($ 110,000 at the exchange rate of 2018).

In an attempt to deny the information disclosed by the press that the denunciations would undermine the government, Bebianno denied the newspaper O Globo who committed an irregularity and said he had spoken on Tuesday three times with the president.

Bolsonaro came to power with the promise to fight corruption involving most political parties in Brazil and Wednesday he insisted that his justice minister, the famous former anti-corruption judge Sergio Moro, He has "carte blanche" to investigate "any type of crime of corruption or money laundering".

"If (Bebianno) was involved and logically responsible, his destiny can only be a return to his origins", Bolsonaro said in the interview, aired the night.

Bebianno is considered one of the main officials of Bolsonaro's membership in the PSLafter which he became one of his trusted men.

(With information from AFP)