The president's son denies everything | Brazil

Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of President Jair Bolsonaro, said he had no connection with the paramilitary "militias" in Rio de Janeiro and asked that the case in which he was investigated be filed.

The congressman admitted to hiring members of the "militia" family Adriano Magalhaes da Nobrega and organizing a tribute to him at the Legislative Assembly in Rio de Janeiro. In an interview published yesterday by the Estado de S.Paulo newspaper, Bolsonaro explained that when he had proposed this ceremony in favor of Magalhaes da Nobrega, he did not know that he was a scammer.

"How do you demand of me something (who was Magalhaes) who became public 15 years later," defended Flavio Bolsonaro, who was previously a federal senator and deputy of the state legislature of Rio. Magalhaes da Nobrega, who is the subject of an arrest warrant, is one of the leaders of the gang "Crime Bureau", suspected of having participated in it. badbadination of militant Marielle Franco in 2018. The public prosecutor of Rio opened an investigation into these relations. of Bolsonaro with his former chief of staff, Fabricio Queiroz, suspected of having relations with the "militia". The investigators revealed that Queiroz had handled with suspicion millions of reais and that there had been at least one transfer for the first lady, Michelle Temer, Jair Bolsonaro's wife. The Red Party, from the ecologist Marina Silva, has accused Flavio Bolsonaro of being the leader of this illegal money network which also contains funds related to militias. The senator categorically rejected any illegal act by declaring that he wanted to "perpetuate" the case. At the same time, he accused the prosecution of wanting to "break bank secrecy so that it appears on television" as part of a plan to make the process spectacular.

Prosecutors "want to give a legal varnish" to a maneuver to "lift my bank and tax secrecy," condemned the senator who also demanded the "record" of the case.