Brazil’s Bolsonaro denies illegal acts with seized jewelry

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro said Saturday that he’d done nothing illegal following reports that he tried to bring jewelry worth more than $3 million into the country in 2021 without declaring it to authorities.
The jewelry – a set of earrings, a necklace, a ring and a watch of the Swiss brand Chopard – had been given as a gift to Bolosonaro by the Saudi Arabian government when he was in office, according to a report Friday in the O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper.
The set was found in luggage belonging to an adviser to Bolsonaro’s mines and energy minister in Sao Paulo’s international airport, according to the newspaper. The minister had visited Saudi Arabia after attending a 2021 Middle East summit.