Brazilian court convicts Jair Bolsonaro’s son of seeking US help for his father

A panel of ⁠Brazil’s supreme court has voted ⁠to convict Eduardo Bolsonaro of courting US ⁠interference in the coup plot trial of his father, the former president Jair Bolsonaro.

The panel’s four justices each backed the conviction on Tuesday and were expected to discuss the sentence later in the day.

The office of Brazil’s ‌prosecutor general had ‌charged Eduardo Bolsonaro with courting US authorities to help his ‌father’s case by imposing sanctions on the court’s justices and tariffs on Brazilian goods.

The younger Bolsonaro, a former lawmaker, moved to the United States in 2025, months before ‌the trial that convicted the rightwing ex-president of plotting a coup.

In the US, he has been ​active building support, especially from the Trump administration, for his father.

Eduardo Bolsonaro said in a statement after Tuesday’s conviction that he had not been properly notified about the court’s legal ⁠process.

He has told Reuters that his work in ​the US ​was not aimed at getting ​his father acquitted by Brazilian courts, but ​at forcing the ‌Brazilian supreme ​court to ​punish officials who, according to the son, were not complying with Brazil’s constitution.