Brazilian Federal Police arrest pro-Bolsonaro blogger on suspicion of fleeing the country.
Blogger Oswaldo Eustáquio is under investigation in Operation Lume, an inquiry into the financing and organization of anti-democratic acts. In 2019, he was ordered to pay R$ 15 in damages to journalist Glenn Greenwald for insulting his mother.
247 - The Federal Police arrested blogger Owvaldo Eustáquio, former advisor to the Ministry of Human Rights, in Campo Grande (MS), on Friday morning (26). He is being investigated in Operation Lume, an inquiry that investigates the financing and organization of anti-democratic acts for the return of the military dictatorship and the closure of the National Congress and the Supreme Federal Court (STF). A information It's from the UOL portal.
The Federal Police located the Bolsonaro supporter initially in Ponta Porã (MS), on the border with Paraguay. He had been under surveillance because there was a risk of him leaving the country. Today, he was in the state capital.
The blogger appeared in a live stream with former congressman Roberto Jefferson, convicted in the Mensalão scandal, when the politician argued that there would be an attempted coup against him. Jair Bolsonaro (no party affiliation). The live conversation was retransmitted on the president's social media channels.
In 2019, he was ordered to pay R$ 15 in damages to journalist Glenn Greenwald for insulting his mother, Arlene Greenwald, who died of brain cancer.
In August 2019, Eustáquio claimed that Glenn lied about his mother's condition in order to expedite US visas for their minor children and travel with them to the US.