BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Lawyers for former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told the Supreme Court on Friday that the draft of a request for asylum in Argentina found on his phone by police cannot be considered an indication of flight risk, since it was dated last year.
In the document sent to the court, his defense also denied that Bolsonaro breached any restraining order imposed by the court against him. The former president has been under house arrest since earlier this month.
Bolsonaro’s defense was reponding to an order by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to clarify an alleged failure to comply with court-imposed restraining orders and his flight risk, after police presented a report with fresh accusations against the former president.
(Reporting by Ricardo Brito in Brasilia; additional reporting and writing by Andre Romani; Editing by Kylie Madry)
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