India, Sept. 12 -- Brazilian presidential candidate Sen Flavio Bolsonaro is under investigation for corruption, money laundering and tax evasion for receiving millions of dollars from a disgraced banker to finance a movie about his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro.

Brazil's top court unsealed several documents late Thursday that show Sen Bolsonaro, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's primary opponent, is under investigation for receiving 61 million reais (USD 12 million) from a banker at the centre of a corruption scandal to produce an unreleased movie titled "The Dark Horse."

The investigation, which centres on whether the Bolsonaro family misused the funds and whether the payments were properly reported to Brazilian authoriti...