US asks Brazil's security attache to leave country

The US government has asked ​Brazilian security attache Marcelo Ivo de Carvalho ‌to leave the United States, the US Embassy in the South American country said on Monday, Report informs via Reuters.

De ​Carvalho, who acts as a liaison ​with US immigration enforcement, has been based ⁠in Miami.

The move comes after ICE last ​week briefly detained Brazilian intelligence chief Alexandre Ramagem, who ​fled Brazil in September following his conviction for plotting a coup with ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, a political ​ally of Donald Trump.

"No foreigner gets to ​game our immigration system to both circumvent formal extradition ‌requests ⁠and extend political witch hunts into US territory," the US State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs said on X, adding "the relevant ​Brazilian official" ​was asked ⁠to depart.

The message, which was reposted by the US embassy in ​Brazil, did not name the official ​or ⁠explicitly mention Ramagem's case. The embassy later confirmed to Reuters it referred to de Carvalho.