Federal policeman stand guard near your house of previous Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, throughout a search operation at his house, in Brasilia, Brazil May 3, 2023.
Adriano Machado|Reuters
Brazil’s federal authorities on Wednesday robbed previous President Jair Bolsonaro’s house in Brasilia as part of a probe into a group presumed of including incorrect vaccine information into the federal government’s Covid-19 database, 2 sources knowledgeable about the matter stated.
Two of Bolsonaro’s closest assistants, Mauro Cid and Max Guilherme, have actually been detained in the very same operation, the sources included.
Federal authorities previously in the day stated in a declaration they were serving 16 search and seizure warrants and 6 preventive arrest warrants in Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro as part of the operation, however did not reveal the names of those targeted.
Federal policeman stand guard near your house of previous Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, throughout a search operation at his house, in Brasilia, Brazil May 3,2023
Adriano Machado|Reuters
A spokesperson and a legal representative for Bolsonaro did not instantly react to ask for remark.
Police stated the “false data” were presumably contributed to the database in between November 2021 and December 2022, when Bolsonaro was president, to change immunization statuses of still unnamed individuals.
“As a result, they were able to issue vaccine certificates and use them to circumvent restrictions imposed by public authorities in Brazil and the United States,” authorities stated, including the group likewise had an “ideological reason” for doing so.
Bolsonaro while in workplace was a singing doubter of Covid-19 vaccines who swore to never ever get the jab.
