Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro listens his chief of staff, Army General Walter Souza Braga Netto (R) near Brazil's Vice President Hamilton Mourao (C), during a ceremony at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil February 24, 2021. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian police on Thursday confiscated former President Jair Bolsonaro's passport and accused him of editing a draft decree to overturn election results, pressuring military chiefs to join a coup attempt and plotting to jail a Supreme Court justice.
The bombshell allegations are the result of a probe into Bolsonaro and his inner circle for allegedly plotting a military coup after his electoral loss to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in 2022. Thursday's operation included search warrants against four former ministers and the arrest of four former aides.
