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Bonner, Anitta, Huck, and Bolsonaro had their tax data hacked by the IRS between 2018 and 2020.

New names emerge after the disclosure that tax data belonging to figures opposed to Jair Bolsonaro, such as Bebianno and Paulo Marinho, were targeted by a tax office hack in 2019.

William Bonner, Luciano Huck, Anitta and Jair Bolsonaro (Photo: Reproduction/Instagram | REUTERS/Marco Bello)

247 - After the discovery that Disgruntled members of the Bolsonaro clan had their confidential tax data accessed and extracted by the Federal Revenue Service. during the Bolsonaro government (PL), a reporter Folha de S. Paulo published this Friday (3) reported that presenters Luciano Huck and William Bonner, from Globo, singer Anitta and Jair Bolsonaro (PL) himself also had their tax data accessed irregularly.

All of these names appear on a list submitted by the Federal Revenue Service to the TCU (Federal Court of Accounts) in 2021 during an investigation into unauthorized access to confidential tax data.

The accesses were made between 2018 and 2020. Although it coincides with the period in which the general coordinator of Research and Investigation of the Federal Revenue Service at the beginning of the Bolsonaro government (PL), Ricardo Pereira Feitosa, accessed and copied confidential tax data of adversaries of the then occupant of the Planalto Palace, the irregularities disclosed now are not directly related to the 2019 episode.

The investigation into the access to the data of Huck, Anitta, and Bonner is still ongoing. The suspect believed to have accessed their data is an administrative technical assistant at the Customs Surveillance office in Santana do Livramento (RS). Twenty other artists also had their data compromised, including former contestants on the TV Globo reality show Big Brother Brasil.