BRASILIA: Brazil`s defeated presidential candidate, right-wing senator Flavio Bolsonaro, has had his passports cancelled, a police source said on Tuesday, amid speculation over his whereabouts.

According to late-night reports, Bolsonaro has left for the United States.

`Flavio Bolsonaro`s passportshavebeencancelled, the source said, adding that `there is no formal record of Flavio Bolsonaro leaving the country.` Argentina`s security ministry and migration authorities on Tuesday denied local media reports that Bolsonaro had entered the neighbouring country.

Flavio Bolsonaro last spoke publicaly on Monday afternoon in a video on social media saying he hadbeen banned from leaving the country and ordered to surrender his passports.

The right-wing senator lost an election bid to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and has refused to concede defeat.

He said the order to surrender his passports was based on a comment by his US-based brother Eduardo Bolsonaro, who told a US podcast two days before the election that `if my brother does not win, I am in favour that he would leave the country.

Brazilian police are probing Flavio Bolsonaro for corruption over the financing of the biopic `Dark Horse` about his former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest for plotting a coup.-AFP