The president of the Liberal Party (PL), the formation that has hosted Jair Bolsonaro since last year, said in February that he fervently wanted the former president to return from the United States to end opposition to Lula da Silva’s government as soon as possible. to lead. However, in the first days of March, Valdemar Costa Neto already confided to allies that he prefers to keep him away from Brazil so that the succession of scandals that befell him do not infect the PL.
It mainly concerns the Saudi jewellery. In October 2021, Bolsonaro’s then Minister of Mines and Energy paid an official visit to Riyadh with a jewelry box worth three million euros, intended for First Lady Michelle, according to Mohammed bin Salman’s regime. At customs, the gift was discovered in the backpack of an adviser to the minister and held until payment of 50% of its value, according to the law, as revealed by the newspaper. The State of S. Paulo.
Source: DN
