President Bolsonaro
Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro has threatened to strike a reporter over and over again in the mouth after being questioned on his wife’s links to an alleged corruption scheme.
In reaction to a question from an O Globo reporter who was part of a group that met Bolsonaro after his regular Sunday visit to the Metropolitan Cathedral in Brasilia yesterday, the president having retorted, “I so want to pound your mouth with punches,” ignored protests from other journalists and left without making further comments.
It was learnt that the reporter asked about a report in the magazine Crusoe which connected the First Lady, Michelle Bolsonaro to Fabrício Queiroz, a retired police officer, a friend of the president, and former adviser to her son Flavio Bolsonaro, who is now a senator.
Queiroz and Flavio Bolsonaro are under investigation for a scheme that purportedly frauded government employees of their pay when the younger Bolsonaro was a regional lawmaker in Rio de Janeiro, and before Jair Bolsonaro became president in January 2019.
The magazine reported that Queiroz deposited funds in Michelle Bolsonaro’s bank account between 2011 and 2016 but the first lady has said nothing about the case.