Flávio Bolsonaro had a job in Brasilia and studied in Rio

Brazil reveals that the elected Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PSL-RJ), son of the President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro, held a position in the Chamber of Deputies, in Brasilia, while attending a school by law and volunteered in Rio de Janeiro between 2000 and 2002.

At the age of 19, Flávio was appointed deputy secretary of the PPB leadership cabinet, for which Jair Bolsonaro was elected for a third term as a Member of Parliament. The position required the completion of 40 hours of weekly work in the House. For this, the president's son received the equivalent of R $ 4,712 per month, or R $ 13,500 in corrected amounts, according to the Flavio income tax statement obtained by the BBC.

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This same post commissioned was previously held by another member of the Bolsonaro family: Jair's wife – Ana Cristina Siqueira Valle – left it a week before being replaced by Flávio.

During the same period he worked Brasília, the eldest son of Jair Bolsonaro, said in his pages on LinkedIn and on the website of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio de Janeiro that He had practiced two other activities requiring his physical presence: the Candido Mendes University School of Law, every day, and a trainee at the Public Defender's office in Rio de Janeiro, twice a week.

There is however no reference to the parliamentary office in its two programs available on the Internet. Occupancy in the House, however, is included in the 2001 tax return submitted to the Electoral Court, in the Transparency Portal of the House and in the Official Journal of the Union.

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The BBC report asked Flávio and Jair Bolsonaro's advisers how the elected senator managed to reconcile voluntary training and private college in Rio de Janeiro with public employment in Brasilia, two cities more than 1,000 km apart. almost an hour and a half. But there was no response until the report was published.

Flávio did not leave the House until June 2002 to contest the elections. That year, he was elected to Rio deputy by the PPB himself. Three years later, he graduated as a lawyer.

President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday in an interview with the Bloomberg agency in Davos, Switzerland, that any irregularities committed by his son they will have to be punished. "If by chance he made a mistake and that is proven, I regret it as a father, but he will have to pay the price of these acts that we can not accept," he said.

The Council for the Control of Financial Activities (Coaf) in cash on behalf of the current elected Member of Parliament and Senator. The deposits, still in the amount of R $ 2,000 and a total amount of R $ 96,000, were made between June and July 2017 at the branch of the bank located in the Assembly. Legislative of Rio de Janeiro (Alerj) – Flávio is a deputy of the state. 19659002] Coaf, a federal anti-money laundering agency, also identified atypical movements of R7 million on the account of Fabrício Queiroz, Flávio's former advisor and friend of the family. For example, Queiroz received transfers from other employees in Flávio's office and presented a check for $ 24,000 to First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro.

Flávio Bolsonaro denied having committed an irregularity. He says the values ​​he moved were real estate buying and selling transactions. He also states that he is not responsible for what his badociates do from the door of his office. And he says the denunciations are meant to exhaust their father's government.