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A Brazilian senator close to President Jair Bolsonaro was captured, after a police raid, with money hidden between his buttocks, the Brazilian press reported, citing sources on condition of anonymity. Senator Chico Rodrigues is suspected of embezzling money from a special fund to combat the COVID pandemic.
The senator confirmed in a statement that raids were conducted at his home in Boa Vista on Wednesday, but did not give details. Denies any accusations of corruption.
His office, meanwhile, declined to say whether the incident with the money found in the panties was true, but a judicial source close to the case confirmed the information to Reuters.
diary Sao Paulo state reported that the 69-year-old senator allegedly hid more than 30,000 Brazilian reais (about 4,500 euros) in his private parts. Another publication, the magazine Crusoe, Conservatively oriented, he even wrote, to illustrate the squalor of the situation, that some bills were dirty with feces. “It was a very embarrassing scene” when police made the discovery, he wrote. Crusoe.
The information went viral, and the Brazilians published it on social networks under the hashtag #PropinaNaBunda (With a bribe in the ass – no) With a play on words, many commented that the moment will remain in the “annals of history” writes The Guardian.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
