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Bolsonaro affiliation used fake address, claims political party

From Folha de S.Paulo · () Portuguese

Translated from Portuguese, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • A political party claims Flávio Bolsonaro's affiliation was a fraudulent attempt, using a fictitious address and potentially compromised email access.
  • The party stated that an unidentified third party used Bolsonaro's data without his approval, citing discrepancies in identification numbers.
  • Bolsonaro's team asserts the affiliation was a fraud executed via the court's affiliation system, not through his email, and the party is investigating IP records.

A political party, Missão, alleges that Flávio Bolsonaro's affiliation was a fraudulent act. The party claims the registration used a fictitious address, "Rua Dos Bandidos, nº 666, Bairro Miliciano," which does not correspond to any official location in Rio de Janeiro. Missão stated that the affiliation was only possible because stages of the process were completed using access to Bolsonaro's official email.

However, aides to the senator dispute this, claiming only automatic notifications were sent to his inbox. They assert the fraud originated from someone with party credentials accessing the court's affiliation system. Missão maintains that an unidentified third party used Bolsonaro's data without his consent, pointing to a mismatch between the provided CPF and the one linked to his electoral registry.

The party reported attempting to reverse the affiliation in the TSE's system due to the differing CPFs but received an access permission error. The electoral court stated the incident was not a system hack but an improper use of the tool by someone with party affiliation credentials, a point echoed by Bolsonaro's team. Missão's president, Renan Santos, said the party can prove the affiliation occurred through official channels, with someone accessing Bolsonaro's email to initiate it.

Federal deputy Kim Kataguiri plans to request IP records associated with Bolsonaro's institutional email from the Senate to determine who accessed it and how the affiliation occurred.

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Originally published by Folha de S.Paulo in Portuguese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.