BRASILIA - Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro has missed a Supreme Court deadline to turn in his passports to the country's federal police, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday, adding that the documents had since been cancelled. His whereabouts were unknown on Tuesday, Reuters reported.
Source: Reuters, Oct 27, 2026 - Flavio Bolsonaro misses deadline to turn in passports to Brazil police
The development came two days after Flávio was defeated on Sunday by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the presidential runoff. In a video statement reported by AFP, Flávio said Federal Police officers had informed him of the order after he visited his father, former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest. 'I received an order to hand over my passport, and I have also been prohibited from leaving the country,' he said, adding that Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes had issued the order on Sunday night, shortly after Lula was declared the winner.
Flávio is under investigation in a money-laundering probe linked, according to reports, to the financing of a biographical film about his father; he denies wrongdoing, and the investigation is not a conviction. AFP reported that a copy of the court order had not been made available and that the legal basis for the travel restriction remained unclear. Flávio described the measure as 'a blatant attempt to intimidate me,' said he had never thought of leaving the country, and said he would comply with the surrender order while challenging the court's decision.
He has also refused to accept the election result and has said he will seek to overturn it, arguing that the extension of voting hours on Sunday benefited Lula - although, as AFP noted, he had himself previously made a similar request to the court. His own Liberal Party, by contrast, recognised Lula's victory on Monday in a statement by its leader, Valdemar Costa Neto.
Reuters' report that the passports have been cancelled and that Flávio's whereabouts were unknown on Tuesday raises the immediate question of whether he will now present himself to the federal police and how his legal challenge to the surrender order proceeds. Neither the Supreme Court nor the federal police had publicly confirmed the missed-deadline report in the sources checked for this story.