In Brazil, the police raided 16 points in the capital Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro as part of the operation against the network, which entered the wrong Covid-19 vaccination data into the systems of the Ministry of Health. As part of the operation, the police also searched the house of former President Jair Bolsonaro and detained 6 people, including Bolsonaro’s former adviser, Mauro Cid Barbosa.
It was announced that the order for the operation was given by Brazilian Federal Supreme Court Minister Alexandre de Moraes, and the mobile phones of Bolsonaro and his wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, were seized during the searches.
The Brazilian Federal Police stated that between November 2021 and December 2022, some people changed their vaccination status against Covid-19 and obtained a vaccination certificate, bypassing the restrictions imposed by Brazil and the USA against the global epidemic, and stated that the evidence obtained in the raids is currently being examined.
Bolsonaro, who lost the presidential elections held in Brazil on October 30, 2022 in the second round and left Brazil before the end of his term on December 31, 2022, went to the USA, and returned to his country on March 30, 3 months later. (UAV)