Brazil's top electoral court, the TSE, paused counting votes in the presidential runoff after Justice Cristiano Zanin extended voting nationwide to 6 p.m. local time. The pause came as Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro remained locked in one of the country's tightest races in decades.

Brazil's Federal Police carried out twelve search warrants on October 22 in an investigation into an alleged cryptocurrency pyramid scheme, while a federal court separately ordered up to $19.8 million in linked assets frozen.