SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday denied committing “illegal acts” after a report that jewelry allegedly gifted by Saudi Arabia to him and his wife was brought into the South American nation without being declared to authorities.
The government of Bolsonaro’s successor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, pledged to investigate the matter.
On Friday, O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper reported that a member of Bolsonaro’s government had illegally tried to bring to Brazil a $3.2 million jewelry set consisting of a diamond necklace, ring, watch and earrings gifted to the far-right former president and former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro by the Saudi government.
The Saudi embassy in Brazil did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“I’m being accused of a gift I neither asked for nor received,” Bolsonaro was quoted as saying in an interview with CNN Brasil. “There is no illegality…
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