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In an attempt to secure US support in his father's legal battle, Brazil sentences Jair Bolsonaro's son
2026-06-17 12:03:02 / BOTA
The son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is in prison, has been convicted by Brazil's Supreme Court of trying to secure United States interference in the trial of his father, accused of an attempted coup.
Eduardo Bolsonaro, 41, was accused last year of lobbying US authorities to help the former president, seeking the imposition of tariffs or sanctions on Brazil.
The former Brazilian congressman moved to the US in 2025, before his father, who led Brazil from January 2019 to December 2022, was found guilty of plotting a military coup and sentenced to 27 years in prison.
In a reaction on social media on Tuesday, Eduardo Bolsonaro called the decision "baseless and absurd," claiming that the judges aim to prevent him from running in the next elections.
He added that the process lacked due process, noting that he had not been officially notified of the case and had only learned about it through media reports.
The Brazilian Supreme Court sentenced him in absentia to four years and two months in prison.
Earlier, Eduardo Bolsonaro had told the BBC that he was living in "exile", fearing that he would be arrested if he returned to Brazil.
He has publicly lobbied for the Trump administration's support for his father, while the US administration has described the process against Jair Bolsonaro as a "witch hunt."
US President Donald Trump, who considers Bolsonaro a political ally, imposed a 50% tariff on imports from Brazil in July last year. The current Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, called the decision “not only wrong, but illogical.”
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio later said Washington would respond to Bolsonaro's conviction. The Trump administration had also imposed sanctions on Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes, accusing him of abuses in handling cases related to Bolsonaro.
Lula da Silva stated that Brazil was willing to negotiate with the US on trade issues, but described the sanctions against de Moraes as an unacceptable interference in the country's justice system.
Later, the US withdrew these sanctions.
During Trump's first term, he and Bolsonaro had a close political relationship and met at the White House in 2019.
Both leaders subsequently lost the presidential election, and neither publicly admitted defeat.
Jair Bolsonaro was found guilty of organizing a plan to overturn the result of the 2022 election. The case was linked to a broader effort to keep him in power, including the attack on state institutions in Brasilia in January 2023 by his supporters.
"This is nothing more and nothing less than an attack on a political opponent - something I know very well," Trump declared at the time.
In response, Bolsonaro thanked the US president for his support./ Taken from BBC
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