Brazil's Supreme Court bars Flávio Bolsonaro from leaving the country and from contacting Willer Tomaz in betting-linked laundering inquiry

What the order says

Federal Police served the order on Flávio Bolsonaro on the morning of Monday, October 26, according to state news agency Agência Brasil. The order requires him to surrender his ordinary and diplomatic passports within 24 hours and bars him from leaving the country and from communicating with Tomaz. The decision is under seal and was made public by the senator on social media. Neither the STF nor the Federal Police had published the order or a statement on it at the time of writing.

Flávio Bolsonaro said the decision was issued on Sunday night, after the presidential run-off result, and was based on remarks by his brother Eduardo Bolsonaro, who said on October 23 that Flávio should leave Brazil if he lost. "I never thought of leaving the country. I will hand over my passports and defend myself," he said in a video, as quoted by Agência Brasil and O Globo. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the October 25 run-off.

The inquiry

Last week Moraes ordered a freeze of up to R$6 billion of Tomaz's assets in the same inquiry, which concerns suspected money laundering linked to betting businesses. According to Agência Brasil, preliminary Federal Police findings say Flávio Bolsonaro was a beneficiary of funds from Alcazar Holdings, a company based in Madeira, Portugal, that is also under investigation. Both men have said they are friends but not business partners, and deny wrongdoing.