The former federal deputy () denied that he had received money from the businessman to stay in the United States. The former parliamentarian reacted in response to the news report Sheetwhich showed that the Federal Police suspect that Vorcaro’s resources paid for his stay outside Brazil.
Jair Bolsonaro’s son has lived in Texas, USA, since February last year. The suspicion arose after the discovery of a fund controlled by Eduardo’s allies and based in Texas.
The company is the same one used to finance the film “” (“underdog”, in English), which deals with the life of the former president. In a post on social media this Thursday (14), the former deputy called the Federal Police’s suspicion “crude” because, according to him, his migration status would prohibit receiving funds.
Eduardo does not clarify, however, what immigration status in the USA he had at the time the payments were made. He had his passport the day after his mandate was revoked. According to a report, Eduardo’s green card process is ongoing and lawyer Paulo Calixto appears among the lawyers who worked on the case.
Earlier, in , the senator (PL-RJ) confirmed that resources paid by Vorcaro for the production of the film went through the Havengate Development Fund, a fund registered in Texas and represented by Paulo Calixto, Eduardo’s lawyer. The parliamentarian denied, however, that this money was intended to cover his brother’s expenses in the USA.
Eduardo says he explained to the American authorities “the entire origin” of his resources. “And I didn’t have any problems, because there is no exception regime here. I didn’t hold any management or employment position at the fund, I just ceded my image rights.”
Eduardo, in the same post, says that Calixto, who took care of all the details of the negotiation, is not “a mere migration office”, but has been working “in wealth management and investment funds for over a decade”. “The migration part is just one of their departments, due to the need for high-level clients to migrate their capital and residence to the location of their investments,” he says, who denies owning the film, but is part of a dozen investors.
He further argues that all investments were made in the United States “because the production was American, with American actors”. “Nobody would risk investing in a Bolsonaro film in Brazil, as they would be duly persecuted by the regime and linked as a coup financier, as they did. Investment in the USA guarantees legal security in a serious jurisdiction”, he says.
