Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who left the country for the United States two days before the end of his term, will return home on March 30, the party and its press service announced on Friday.
The group said Bolsonaro had handed over to the authorities, through his lawyer, some expensive jewelry given to him by the government of Saudi Arabia.
The 68-year-old far-right leader has been embroiled in scandal over the issue and has been accused of illegally bringing the jewels to Brazil.
Bolsonaro will arrive on Thursday March 30 at 7:30, the Liberal Party (PL) said on social media.
After losing the election to leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in October, Bolsonaro left Brazil for Florida on December 30, just two days before the new president was to be sworn in, when he had to hand over the presidential belt to him. successor.
“I will continue my normal life, I will work in PL, travel in Brazil and participate in politics,” Bolsonaro said in an interview with Record TV broadcast on Thursday.
Bolsonaro denies wrongdoing but is accused of illegally trying to bring gifts into the country.
The scandal erupted when the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper reported that customs officials intercepted Bolsonaro’s mine assistant and energy minister trying to enter Brazil with a backpack containing diamond jewelry from the Swiss luxury company Chopard after an official trip to Saudi Arabia in October 2021.
Then it emerged that Bolsonaro had kept a second set of jewelry, also from Chopard, which entered Brazil undetected after the same trip.
Travelers entering Brazil with goods worth more than $1,000 must declare and pay hefty import taxes.
Media reports put the value of the jewelry, which some believe was a gift to the former president’s wife, at $3.2 million for the first set, and at least $75,000 for the second.
“I found out about this story a year later and my wife found out about it through the press,” Bolsonaro told Record TV.
“He has nothing to do with this, the box given to him is custom.”