Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, on Tuesday wrote on Twitter his father would return to Brazil next week but deleted the post a few minutes later, saying the date was not confirmed.
"I'm sorry for the previous post, I might be missing him a lot," Flavio said, adding the March 15th date he had previously announced for the former president's return was "likely but still unconfirmed".
Bolsonaro has been in self-imposed exile in the United States since late December, having flown to Florida 48 hours before his opponent and successor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in.
Brazil's federal police said on Tuesday they were carrying out new raids as part of a probe into the January 8th riots in Brasilia, in which supporters of Bolsonaro stormed government buildings.
They were serving three arrest warrants and eight search and seizure warrants in the states of Minas Gerais and Parana, a statement said.
The raids represent the seventh phase of an operation launched in mid-January to identify people who participated in, funded or fostered the riots, in which a mob invaded and ransacked the Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court.
Police did not disclose the names of those targeted in Tuesday's raids, but said they were being investigated for crimes of "violent abolition of the rule of law, coup d'état, qualified damage, criminal association, incitement, destruction and deterioration of specially protected property".
