Saudi gift impeachment to ex-president

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been accused of instructing his aide to sell and wire the money to him, with the undeclared jewelry worth $3.2 million discovered upon his return from a visit to Saudi Arabia in 2021. .

Cezar Bittencourt, a lawyer for Bolsonaro’s presidential aide Lt. Col. Mauro Cid, told AP that Bolsonaro admitted that shortly before leaving office, he had ordered his client to sell the jewelry.

Stating that he asked his client about the fate of the watch that Saudi Arabia gave to the former president, Bittencourt said Cid said that he “sold two watches in the US on Bolsonaro’s orders and gave the money to the former president.” “.

Brazilian police announced that Bolsonaro received cash from the sale of two watches for approximately $70,000. These watches are known to be part of a total of three sets of jewelery delivered to the President of the time by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

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On March 23, the Brazilian government gave Bolsonaro five business days to return the $3.2 million worth of undeclared jewelry found upon his return from his visit to Saudi Arabia in 2021, while Bolsonaro argued that there was no irregularities.

Bolsonaro also testified to police on April 6 about the jewelry. Bolsonaro’s lawyers reported that the two gift sets of jewelry were deposited in a public bank.

The jewels were found in the backpack of one of Bolsonaro’s crew members at the Sao Paulo Guarulhos airport upon his return from a visit to Saudi Arabia.

Bolsonaro, who is being investigated for “inciting” the raid of Congress in Brazil, returned to his country on March 30 from the US, where he went on December 30, 2022. (BRITISH AUTOMOBILE CLUB)