Rio de Janeiro — Rio de Janeiro state prosecutors on Wednesday raided properties of the former staff of Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and relatives of the president’s former wife, according to prosecutors.

The investigation is an offshoot from an earlier probe looking into suspicious payments to staff from when Senator Flavio Bolsonaro was a Rio state legislator. Flavio Bolsonaro has been  the focus of a probe into  embezzlement and money-laundering, reports said...

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