FILE PHOTO: Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro is seen after a meeting between Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro and Paraguay's President Mario Abdo at the Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, Brazil March 12, 2019. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's police and prosecutors can access confidential tax and financial information without a court order, the country's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, clearing the way for authorities to reopen an investigation of the president's son.
A majority of the high court's justices voted to allow public prosecutors in financial crime investigations to have access to tax documents and data at the Federal Revenue Service and central bank's financial intelligence unit with no need for warrants.
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