The police detective who signed the indictment, Fábio Alvarez Shor, said in his report that Bolsonaro and his aides changed their vaccination records in order to “issue their respective (vaccination) certificates and use them to cheat current health restrictions,” basically to obtain a vaccination card to enter the US.

“The investigation found several false insertions between November 2021 and December 2022, and also many actions of using fraudulent documents,” he said.

The indictment said that Bolsonaro's head aide, Mario Cid, had told investigators that he was asked by the former president to enter the false data in the health ministry's database.

However Bolosanro's lawyer, Fabio Wajngarten, called the indictment "absurd."

“When he was president, he was completely exonerated from showing any kind of certificate on his trips. This is a political persecution and an attempt to void the enormous political capital that has only grown,” he said.

Bolsonaro additionally denied any wrongdoing when he was questioned in May 2023.