Lindbergh asks Brazil’s Supreme Court to consider removing Flávio Bolsonaro from Senate

Lindbergh Farias, a federal lawmaker from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s Workers’ Party, has asked Brazil’s Supreme Court to examine whether Senator Flávio Bolsonaro should be removed from office.

The petition calls for the court to have the Office of the Prosecutor-General assess the request. It follows revelations reported by Piauí magazine that Daniel Vorcaro made another transfer of $1.66 million to produce Dark Horse, a film about former President Jair Bolsonaro.

The move is part of a broader political counterattack by Lula’s allies. Flávio Bolsonaro has called for Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to be removed after new revelations about Moraes’s relationship with Vorcaro. Farias’s petition seeks what he describes as full transparency and an investigation into everyone connected to the banker.

According to the account, Workers’ Party members believe Justice André Mendonça’s release of dialogues involving Moraes and Vorcaro was intended to weaken the impact of the revelations concerning Flávio and the film. Farias argued that Flávio’s continued Senate mandate could create a risk that he would use his parliamentary position for personal benefit.

The petition also asks for Flávio Bolsonaro to surrender his passport, be barred from leaving Brazil, avoid contact with investigators and witnesses, and wear an electronic monitoring device.