Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro faces five Supreme Court investigations that could send him to prisonFormer president Jair Bolsonaro, who is due to return to Brazil Thursday, three months after leaving for the United States at the end of his term, faces legal trouble on various fronts back home.
The final Supreme Court investigation is for leaking classified information about a police investigation of a hacker attack on Brazil's electoral authority.However, now that the far-right ex-army captain no longer has presidential immunity, numerous pending cases could land him in lower courts. But the scandal deepened Tuesday when Estado de Sao Paulo reported he still has a previously undisclosed third set of jewels received from Saudi Arabia in 2019, including a diamond-encrusted Rolex.Bolsonaro, who adamantly denies wrongdoing, has himself said he could face arrest.
There is a recent precedent for the latter: in 2019, Bolsonaro's predecessor, ex-president Michel Temer, was jailed over corruption allegations less than three months after leaving office -- though the Supreme Court reversed the ruling four days later.
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