The sweeping charges against the ex-leader and 36 of his allies come after police uncover a plan to assassinate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

In recommending charges against the former president, police say Latin America’s largest country came close to suffering a coup following the 2022 election.

Brazilian police have arrested five suspects involved in an alleged coup attempt targeting then president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his vice-president. The detailed plot, 'Green and Yellow Dagger,

Investigation probes an alleged anti-democratic scheme by the former president to remain in power after his 2022 election defeat

Brazilian police said charges were warranted against a total of 37 people, including military brass who served in the former president’s government.

Sixty years after the US-backed 1964 military coup, revelations by the Federal Police have shown that Brazil was close to a new coup and the establishment of a dictatorship after Bolsonaro’s electoral defeat.

Brazil’s former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro was fully aware of and actively participated in a coup plot to remain in office after his defeat in the 2022 election, according to a Federal Police

Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has moved a step closer to jail after a federal police investigation laid bare what it called a murderous authoritarian plot to explode the country’s democratic system with a military coup that the far-right populist allegedly helped mastermind.

Brazilian ex-president Jair Bolsonaro "actively participated" in a 2022 coup plot to prevent his successor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, from taking office, police alleged in a report made public Tuesday.

Brazil's federal police presented evidence to the Supreme Court that former President Jair Bolsonaro was directly involved in plotting a coup to overturn the outcome of the 2022 election he lost, according to an 884-page report unsealed on Tuesday.