They discover signs of money laundering to Senator Bolsonaro's son | Chronic

The Rio de Janeiro prosecutor's office has found signs of money laundering by the senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of the president Jair Bolsonaro, with the purchase of 19 properties between 2010 and 2017, as part of an investigation into the hiring of "gnocchi" suspected of being leaders of the circle of the presidential family.

This is revealed by a document released Thursday on the petitioner 's tax secrecy petition in question, which is currently under investigation for suspicious fund movements of its former employees at the time of filing. Rio Legislative Assembly, in particular Fabricio Queiroz, his former driver and friend of the president.

A check from Queiroz to Michelle Bolsonaro, the first lady, is part of the movement suspected of using the salaries of employees "gnocchi" for his personal use. The judge in criminal matters Flavio Nicolau, of Rio de Janeiro, authorized the lifting of the banking secrecy of the senator.

This is because the prosecution, as learned from documents published Thursday by the Brazilian press, has as a trigger the purchase of real estate for an amount of 3 million of dollars.

"There are indications of under-invoicing of purchases and over-invoicing of sales and constant use of cash in the payments of these properties", one of them on the beach of Copacabana, as stated in the request of the public prosecutor's office. The profit from this transaction would have been $ 1 million.

The president's son, for his part, denied the charges and denounced the disclosure of the details of the investigation as part of a "political intent". However, this is not the only case given to 95 other people and companies who have seen their bank secrecy lifted, including to a Panama-based company.

The investigation also concerns former parliamentary employees of current President Bolsonaro, while he was a federal deputy. Several employees of the current president were also employed by their children, according to the prosecutor's report, 87 pages. He investigates "criminal organization of high degree of permanence and stability", referring to the driver and former policeman Queiroz.

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This former manager of Flavio Bolsonaro in the Legislative Assembly of Rio, friend of the president since the eighties, is accused of collecting the salary of potential gnocchi employees. In July 2017, the senator received 48 deposits of 2,000 reais (about $ 580) from Queiroz, a former police officer linked to paramilitary militia in Rio de Janeiro, who was suspected of ordering the badbadination of the councilor. and socialist leader. Marielle Franco in March 2018.

On Tuesday of this week, the son of the Brazilian president's senator indicated that his father had hidden interests in the judicial order to lift the confidentiality of their accounts in connection with an investigation into allegedly illegal transactions in the US. benefit of the family of paramilitary "militiamen". .

"They are trying to maneuver to warm up illegal information that they have held for months"added the statement of the senator who took office last February.