{"id":17154,"date":"2024-03-20T09:48:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T09:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/20\/brazils-former-president-jair-bolsonaro-indicted-for-allegedly-falsifying-covid-vaccination-data\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T09:48:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T09:48:16","slug":"brazils-former-president-jair-bolsonaro-indicted-for-allegedly-falsifying-covid-vaccination-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/20\/brazils-former-president-jair-bolsonaro-indicted-for-allegedly-falsifying-covid-vaccination-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s former President Jair Bolsonaro\u00a0indicted for allegedly falsifying Covid vaccination data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Bolsonaro\u2019s closest aide, Lieutenant-Colonel Mauro Cid, and 15 others were also indicted for allegedly participating in the same scheme.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Bolsonaro\u2019s lawyer, Fabio Wajngarten, called the indictment \u201cabsurd.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cThe whole world knows (Bolsonaro\u2019s)\u00a0personal opinion on the subject of vaccination,\u201d he wrote on X. \u201cWhile serving as president, he was completely exempt from presenting any type of certificate on his trips.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Last May, Brazilian Police carried out a search and seizure in Bolsonaro\u2019s home in Brasilia in\u00a0connection\u00a0with\u00a0the suspected falsified vaccination data.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            At the time, Bolsonaro\u00a0told reporters he had not been vaccinated against Covid-19 and that his vaccination card had not been tampered with.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Brazil\u2019s Prosecutor\u2019s Office will now have to determine if they move forward with the indictment.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Bolsonaro was widely criticized at home and abroad for downplaying the severity of the virus during the pandemic, including discouraging people from getting vaccinated, despite Brazil battling a severe coronavirus outbreak.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            In 2021, he publicly flouted a UN requirement that required foreign delegations to be vaccinated before entering its headquarters in New York. Multiple\u00a0members of his delegation\u00a0later tested positive for the virus.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The indictment comes as Bolsonaro faces mounting legal challenges, including an investigation\u00a0into an alleged attempted coup plot to keep him in power after he lost the 2022 presidential election. Several former ministers who served in Bolsonaro\u2019s government are also being investigated and some of his aides have been arrested.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            After Bolsonaro lost the election by a narrow margin to leftist President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, his supporters rioted and broke into government buildings in Brasilia on January 8, 2023. Bolsonaro has denied\u00a0inciting\u00a0the\u00a0violent attacks\u00a0in the capital.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Last year, Bolsonaro was barred from running for political office until 2030 by the country\u2019s highest electoral court for\u00a0abusing his power\u00a0and misusing public media during the 2022 election campaign.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolsonaro\u2019s closest aide, Lieutenant-Colonel Mauro Cid, and 15 others were also indicted for allegedly participating in the same scheme. Bolsonaro\u2019s lawyer, Fabio Wajngarten, called the indictment \u201cabsurd.\u201d \u201cThe whole world knows (Bolsonaro\u2019s)\u00a0personal opinion on the subject of vaccination,\u201d he wrote on X. \u201cWhile serving as president, he was completely exempt from presenting any type of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}