BRASILIA, March 16 — A Brazilian court ruled Wednesday ex-president Jair Bolsonaro has five days to hand over pricey jewellery he received as a present from Saudi Arabia, and...
BRASILIA, March 16 — A Brazilian court ruled Wednesday ex-president Jair Bolsonaro has five days to hand over pricey jewellery he received as a present from Saudi Arabia, and ordered an audit of all official gifts during his presidency.
Under Brazilian law, public officials can only keep gifts that are “both highly personal and of minimal monetary value,” said the court’s president, Bruno Dantas, in a public hearing, giving Bolsonaro “five days to return all items involved in this case to... the rightful owner, the presidential palace.”
The episode has turned into a legal and political headache for the ex-president, who is currently in the United States and expected to return soon to Brazil, hoping to lead the opposition to his leftist successor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. It later emerged Bolsonaro had kept a second set of jewels, also from Chopard, that entered Brazil undetected after the same trip.
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