Flavio Bolsonaro said false accusations are being made against him. (EPA Images pic)BRASILIA: Former conservative presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro said Friday that he fled Brazil to the US because he was a victim of "persecution" in his country.
Bolsonaro, who lost the election runoff to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, secretly left Brazil on Tuesday and arrived in Florida aboard a private jet on Wednesday after traveling through Argentina and Ecuador.
"The persecution began even sooner than I imagined," the senator said during an Instagram livestream in which he discussed his decision to flee after his Brazilian passports were cancelled as part of a money laundering investigation.
