By Tiago Rogero in Brasília ,
43 minutes ago Flávio Bolsonaro makes a statement in Brasilia after he lost the presidential runoff to Lula on Sunday. Photograph: Xinhua/Shutterstock The far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro was banned from leaving Brazil and ordered to surrender his passports just hours after his dramatic loss in the presidential election to the leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The ruling was issued by supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes, the same justice who oversaw the trial of the senator’s father, the former president Jair Bolsonaro, for attempting a coup.
Bolsonaro posted a video saying the decision was based on an interview his brother, Eduardo Bolsonaro, gave last Friday urging his brother to leave Brazil if he lost the election.
The brief ruling, however, only refers to a criminal case in which the federal police are investigating Flávio Bolsonaro over his possible involvement in a money-laundering scheme . The ruling orders him not to have any contact with his friend Willer Tomaz, a lawyer linked to betting companies that police suspect were being used to launder about £680m.
It also cancelled all of Bolsonaro’s passports, including the diplo...