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Flávio Bolsonaro denies fleeing Brazil after landing in Miami

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Flávio Bolsonaro denies fleeing Brazil after landing in Miami

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Watch: Has Flávio Bolsonaro fled Brazil to evade justice? Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who landed in Miami after losing the presidential election on Sunday, has said it was never his intention to "leave my homeland". "I did not flee Brazil; I left for the sake of Brazil," he said in his first statement since his departure. The US provided visas to him and his family after Brazil cancelled his passports as part of a criminal investigation. Speculation about Bolsonaro's whereabouts was first triggered by a report on an Argentine news site, which claimed that he had crossed the land border between Brazil and Argentina and then boarded a private plane en route to the US. Early on Tuesday, they checked border crossings but found no evidence that Bolsonaro had left the country, and Argentine officials said they had no reports of him crossing. But when he failed to surrender his passports in time to meet a 24-hour deadline on Tuesday, Brazilian authorities cancelled the documents and ordered police to make checks at border posts. Jair was still in the US when his supporters stormed Brazil's government buildings and Supreme Court on 8 January. Flávio's brother, Eduardo Bolsonaro, meanwhile, has been living in Texas after taking leave from Brazil's Congress. He is set to lose his parliamentary immunity on 31 January, when his eight-year Senate term ends.

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The defeated Brazilian candidate claims to be the victim of a coup d’état and political persecution, recycling unsubstantiated allegations of “electoral fraud”.

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