[[{"content_id":422724,"content_number":0,"portal_id":2,"lang_id":"en","content_title":"Ex-Mossad agent helped Flavio Bolsonaro flee Brazil after presidential election defeat: Report","content_rtitr":"","content_short_title":null,"content_summary":"Flavio Bolsonaro and his family fled Brazil with the assistance of a former Mossad agent following his defeat in the country’s presidential election, according to a report.","content_summary_fill":1,"content_body":" \r\n\r\nThe former Brazilian presidential candidate and far-right senator left Brazil for the US after the presidential election, accompanied by a former, unnamed Israeli Mossad spy, according to a report published on Friday by CNN Brasil.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBolsonaro was also accompanied by his wife and two daughters. They crossed into Argentina by road on Tuesday via the Tancredo Neves International Bridge, which connects Foz do Iguacu in southern Brazil with Puerto Iguazu in Argentina. The former Mossad agent reportedly accompanied Bolsonaro to Argentina.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nArgentina’s government confirmed that Bolsonaro and his family crossed the border into Argentina and boarded a private flight to Ecuador at 11:30 on Tuesday night.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe senator and his family boarded a private jet in Puerto Iguazu. The Gulfstream G400, operated by Argentine charter company Baires Fly, stopped in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to refuel before arriving at Opa-locka Executive Airport in Miami early Wednesday.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe operation was planned before the second round of the election and was named “Operation Alba.” It also involved assistance from figures in Argentina and the US. Investigators noted that the former Israeli spy arrived in Brazil on October 19, six days before the second round of the presidential election.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nFollowing Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in the presidential election, the Federal Police filed a request to seize Bolsonaro’s passport under an order issued by Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who is investigating the far-right senator’s case.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBolsonaro is currently suspected of money laundering and corruption, as well as illegally accepting campaign funding from a donor network connected to US Vice President JD Vance.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n“This is what the Bolsonaro family is like. Brazil is their second homeland. Their first homeland is licking the boots of the US, as he’s become accustomed to doing,” Lula said, condemning Bolsonaro’s decision to flee.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBolsonaro’s father, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, was sentenced on September 11, 2025, to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup to overturn the 2022 election. Brazil’s Federal Police also charged him with money laundering and criminal conspiracy related to undeclared diamonds he allegedly received from Saudi Arabia while in office.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nLula went on to say that a citizen who flees their country owes something to it, and that this is why Bolsonaro is afraid to stay in Brazil. He also described the act of leaving the country as “shameful.”\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nUS President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Bolsonaro could stay in the country “as long as he wants.” A US State Department spokesperson had also said earlier that Bolsonaro and his family would be granted visas to enter the US.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ","content_html":"

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The former Brazilian presidential candidate and far-right senator left Brazil for the US after the presidential election, accompanied by a former, unnamed Israeli Mossad spy, according to a report published on Friday by CNN Brasil.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Bolsonaro was also accompanied by his wife and two daughters. They crossed into Argentina by road on Tuesday via the Tancredo Neves International Bridge, which connects Foz do Iguacu in southern Brazil with Puerto Iguazu in Argentina. The former Mossad agent reportedly accompanied Bolsonaro to Argentina.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Argentina’s government confirmed that Bolsonaro and his family crossed the border into Argentina and boarded a private flight to Ecuador at 11:30 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The senator and his family boarded a private jet in Puerto Iguazu. The Gulfstream G400, operated by Argentine charter company Baires Fly, stopped in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to refuel before arriving at Opa-locka Executive Airport in Miami early Wednesday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The operation was planned before the second round of the election and was named “Operation Alba.” It also involved assistance from figures in Argentina and the US. Investigators noted that the former Israeli spy arrived in Brazil on October 19, six days before the second round of the presidential election.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Following Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in the presidential election, the Federal Police filed a request to seize Bolsonaro’s passport under an order issued by Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who is investigating the far-right senator’s case.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Bolsonaro is currently suspected of money laundering and corruption, as well as illegally accepting campaign funding from a donor network connected to US Vice President JD Vance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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“This is what the Bolsonaro family is like. Brazil is their second homeland. Their first homeland is licking the boots of the US, as he’s become accustomed to doing,” Lula said, condemning Bolsonaro’s decision to flee.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Bolsonaro’s father, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, was sentenced on September 11, 2025, to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup to overturn the 2022 election. Brazil’s Federal Police also charged him with money laundering and criminal conspiracy related to undeclared diamonds he allegedly received from Saudi Arabia while in office.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Lula went on to say that a citizen who flees their country owes something to it, and that this is why Bolsonaro is afraid to stay in Brazil. He also described the act of leaving the country as “shameful.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Bolsonaro could stay in the country “as long as he wants.” A US State Department spokesperson had also said earlier that Bolsonaro and his family would be granted visas to enter the US.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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