Boulos insinuates Bolsonaro family’s connection to money laundering

The minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, (Psol), stated, without providing evidence, that the family of the former president (PL) may be related to money laundering. In a video published this Tuesday (April 28, 2026), Boulos questioned the purchase of 51 properties in cash by family members of the former Chief Executive.

“Operations with cash are constantly associated with money laundering, with illicit money. If the guy is going to steal or do a scheme, he usually won’t do it with his bank account. When someone buys a property with cash, the tendency for this to be dirty money and that the purchase of the property is money laundering is kind of obvious”he declared.

The minister refers to properties whose purchase was revealed in 2022 in reports by journalists Juliana Dal Piva and Thiago Lana, published on the portal UOL. At the request of the senator and pre-candidate for President (PL-RJ), in September of the same year.

In the same month, then-president Jair Bolsonaro stated that the reports were . “What did they expect from the Folha/UOL group other than lies, slander?”he asked at the time.

In the video, Boulos claims that Bolsonaro even bought underpriced properties. He cites the case of a house in the Vivendas da Barra condominium, in Rio de Janeiro: he says that the property, valued at R$1 million, was purchased by the former president for R$409,000.

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📷 Boulos insinuates Bolsonaro family connection to money laundering

💸The Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Guilherme Boulos (Psol), stated, without presenting evidence, that the Bolsonaro family may be related to money laundering.

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In 2018, criteria from Coaf (Financial Activities Control Council), a unit of the Ministry of Finance that detects irregular operations in the financial system, and Cofeci (Federal Council of Real Estate Brokers), in the purchase of the house where Bolsonaro lived in Rio.

At the time, Cofeci stated that there was “serious signs” of money laundering in the operation in which there was “apparent unjustified increase or decrease in the value of the property” e “whose contract value differs from the ITBI calculation basis”a tax charged by city halls.

Boulos also mentioned the purchase of 17 apartments and 2 kitnets in Copacabana by Flávio. According to the minister, the senator paid R$320,000 by check and R$638,000 in cash.

Still on suspicions of money laundering, Boulos cited the case of R$430,000 seized from the house of the PL leader in the Chamber, deputy . The politician justified the value by stating that it was .

ATTACKS ON FLAVIO

One of President Lula and the Workers’ Party’s communication strategies has been criticism of Flávio. In April alone, the party spent at least to the pre-candidate.

Here are the values:

The party assesses that by not starting the campaign against the legacy of the previous government sooner. To the Poder360the PT’s communications secretary, Éden Valadares, said that the acronym aims to “present who you are” the opponent to the electorate.

Meanwhile, the president (PT) has raised the tone against the opponent. On April 23, for example, he did not quote Flávio directly, but said that it was necessary not country.