Brazil's federal police said on Thursday the country had frozen roughly 40 million reais ($7.99 million) belonging to alleged financiers of the Jan. 8 riots in Brasilia in order to pay for damages caused to public property.
The move was part of the 11th phase of an operation investigating people involved in the riots, in which supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded and ransacked Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had taken office earlier in the month after defeating Bolsonaro in an October election.
