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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Nadeem Badshah and agencies

Jair Bolsonaro’s son sentenced to four years in jail for seeking US interference in father’s Brazil coup trial

Eduardo Bolsonaro
Eduardo Bolsonaro moved to the US, where he has been active in trying to build support for his father. Photograph: Ginnette Riquelme/AP

Brazil’s supreme court has sentenced Eduardo Bolsonaro to four years and two months in prison after finding him guilty of courting US ⁠interference in his father’s coup plot trial last year.

The office of Brazil’s ‌prosecutor general had ‌charged Eduardo Bolsonaro – who lives in the US - courting interference from the Trump administration to help Jair Bolsonaro’s case, by imposing sanctions on the court’s justices and tariffs on Brazilian goods.

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