Federal police found messages on former President Jair Bolsonaro's phone indicating he drafted a political asylum request to Argentina's President Javier Milei dated Feb. 10, 2024. The document was saved two days after authorities searched his home and office during an alleged coup-plot investigation. Bolsonaro spent two nights at the Hungarian Embassy in Brasilia around that time. Police accused Bolsonaro and his son Eduardo of obstruction of justice and cited alleged violations of house-arrest precautions, including unauthorized contact and spreading content aimed "to directly hit Brazilian democratic institutions, notably the Supreme Court and even Brazil's Congress." Justice Alexandre de Moraes gave Bolsonaro's lawyers 48 hours to explain the asylum draft and precaution failures.
The 170-page report said Bolsonaro had drafted a request for political asylum from Argentine President Javier Milei's government dated Feb. 10, 2024. He saved the document two days after authorities searched his home and office as part of the alleged coup plot investigation. Close to that date, Bolsonaro admittedly spent two nights at the Hungarian Embassy in Brasilia, fueling speculation he may have been attempting to avoid arrest.
The Argentina plot is part of the wider police accusation of obstruction of justice, in which Bolsonaro has allegedly ignored precautionary measures established for his house arrest and spread content to his allies "to directly hit Brazilian democratic institutions, notably the Supreme Court and even Brazil's Congress," according to the report. The AP reviewed the police evidence, which included messaging app exchanges and voice messages, after police forwarded the documents to Brazil's Supreme Court.
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