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Defeated Brazilian candidate Flavio Bolsonaro's passports cancelled, whereabouts unknown
Brazil on Tuesday cancelled Senator Flavio Bolsonaro's passports after he failed to hand them into police as part of a money laundering probe in which he denies wrongdoing. The whereabouts of the former presidential candidate – who on Sunday lost to leftist incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – are currently unknown, stoking suspicions he has fled the country.
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