Flavio Bolsonaro Barred From Travel Amid Money Laundering Investigation

Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered police to confiscate the passports of Flávio Bolsonaro as part of a criminal investigation related to a money laundering scheme.Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes issued the ruling, which became public on Monday, a day after Bolsonaro, the son of jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro, lost the presidential election to incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro is being investigated for alleged links to a Brazilian lawyer, Willer Tomaz, who is accused of laundering more than $1 billion through a fraud scheme, the New York Times reported.Bolsonaro, who has cast the investigation as political persecution, said in a social media video on Monday afternoon that the seizure of his travel documents was an attempt at intimidating him after he lost the election.The action could inflame political tensions amid claims from Brazil’s right wing and abroad that the election was unfair. Bolsonaro initially said he would seek to annul the vote, although his Liberal Party later conceded defeat. In the video posted Monday, the right-wing senator said he would now seek to have Lula’s ticket disqualified, citing alleged disinformation and “vote buying.” He...