Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has left the country for the United States after he was defeated in Sunday's presidential election , Folha de S.Paulo and Reuters reported, citing sources close to the senator.

The US State Department will issue visas to Flavio Bolsonaro and his family to allow them to enter the US, a senior State Department official told Reuters and other news agencies.

The Supreme Court had asked Flavio Bolsonaro, the eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro , to surrender his passports to stop him from leaving the country amid investigations into the senator.

It was reported that Bolsonaro had refused to comply with the order, although other reports contradicted this.

The AFP news agency cited a police official as saying that Bolsonaro's passports had been cancelled and there was no official record of him leaving the country.

Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported that Bolsonaro's plane was scheduled to land in either Miami or Dallas.

The news came after Brazilians…