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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has had his passport confiscated amid a police investigation into his role into an “attempted coup” in 2023. The crackdown on Thursday saw police accuse Bolsonaro of plotting to overturn election results, pressuring military officials to join a coup attempt and conspiring to imprison a Supreme Court justice. The accusations and raids follow an investigation into the ex-president and his close aides’ planning of a military coup after he was ousted in October 2022’s election by the incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). Following his defeat, police …