PF investigates Bolsonaro’s accommodation at the Hungarian embassy

The Federal Police will investigate the circumstances surrounding former president Jair Bolsonoro’s accommodation at the Hungarian Embassy.

The PF will verify whether the former president violated any restrictions imposed by the Federal Supreme Court. The investigation was confirmed by Agência Brasil with sources from the Federal Police.

This Monday, videos released by the newspaper The New York Times showed that Jair Bolsonaro stayed between the 12th and 14th of February this year at the Hungarian embassy in Brasília.

Bolsonaro’s stay there occurred four days after the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moraes, ordered the seizure of his passport, in an operation against an alleged coup plot at the top of the former president’s government.

According to images released by the newspaper, Bolsonaro entered the embassy on February 12th and stayed until the 14th. He was accompanied by two security guards there. Throughout his term, the former president cultivated a relationship with the president of Hungary, Victor Orban.

After the video circulated on social media and in the Brazilian press, minister Alexandre Padilha, from the Secretariat of Institutional Relations, declared that the images show that Bolsonaro is a “confessed fugitive”.

The president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco, stated that it is up to the former president to provide the necessary explanations.

In a statement, the former president’s lawyers confirm that he stayed at the embassy in Hungary. According to the defense, Bolsonaro spoke to numerous authorities in the country, updating the political scenario of the two nations. The note also says that any other interpretations that go beyond this information constitute a fictional work.

When contacted, the Hungarian embassy in Brazil did not respond.