Bolsonaro home searched as Brazil probes fake vaccine cards

Brazil's Federal Police searched former President Jair Bolsonaro's home and seized his phone Wednesday in what they said was an investigation into the alleged falsification of COVID-19 vaccine cards. Bolsonaro denied taking a COVID-19 vaccine after police raided his home. Several other locations also were searched, and a half-dozen people faced arrest.

Local media reported that the vaccine cards of Bolsonaro, his advisors and his family members were altered. The police statement said that the insertion of false COVID-19 data occurred between November 2021 and December 2022, and enabled the people whose vaccine cards were altered to comply with the U.S. vaccine requirement to enter the country.