RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Sunday unsealed an investigation into the production of a film about former President Jair Bolsonaro, pointing in his decision to suspicions the movie's financing had ties to a criminal network. The suspicions laid out in Justice Flávio Dino's decision may complicate matters further for Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, only weeks before October's national elections in which he will challenge President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Sen. Bolsonaro, the ex-leader's eldest son, is under investigation for corruption, money laundering and tax evasion for receiving millions of dollars from a disgraced banker to finance the biopic about his father, titled  Dark Horse.  Dino, a Lula appointee who oversees one of the investigations into the film, said the hypothesis that there existed a sophisticated scheme for the allocation and diversion of public funds involving federal congressional budget amendments and the Sao Paulo city government had strengthened. On Thursday, Brazil's federal police targeted federal lawmaker and Bolsonaro ally Mário Frias in an operation. Police seized documents from the film's production company and from Frias, who sent about 2 million reais ($400,000) to a nonprofit linked to the film. They suspect a criminal organization channeled funds to companies that were irregularly subcontracted, without evidence that the contracted services were provided. The judge said Sunday that there were strong indications that Frias, who held a cabinet position during Bolsonaro's term, played a central role within the alleged criminal network. The network may also have links to the criminal organization the First Command of the Capital, or PCC, Dino said. U.S. President Donald Trump declared the group a foreign terrorist organization earlier this year. Frias denies wrongdoing.  I never allocated any congressional budget funds to finance or benefice the production of the film in any way,  Frias said Sunday in a post. He had previously described Thursday's operation as a  smoke screen.  Brazil's Supreme Court has been embroiled in turmoil these pa
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