BRASILIA — Brazilian federal police accuse former president Jair Bolsonaro of receiving large sums of money without apparent justification between March 2023 and February 2024, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday, potentially adding to the embattled former leader’s legal woes.

Investigators say Brazil’s financial watchdog suspects it has a case of money laundering involving Bolsonaro, who in early September will face the verdict and sentencing phase of his trial over an alleged coup plot. The former president could face another trial if the attorney general decides to charge him on accusations of obstruction of justice.

Bolsonaro did not immediately comment on the latest accusation but in the past has claimed he is being persecuted politically by the gover

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