Eliza Samudio’s Passport Found in Portugal as Brazil Orders Transfer to Brasília

Overview

• Itamaraty said the passport is expired and canceled and instructed the Lisbon consulate to send it to the ministry’s headquarters in Brasília, where it will be available to the family on request.
• The document was found late in 2025 by a tenant in a rented apartment near Lisbon and delivered to the Brazilian consulate, after the discovery was first reported by the portal Leo Dias.
• The passport shows an entry into Portugal on May 5, 2007, with no exit stamp, leaving officials without a public explanation for how it later surfaced in the apartment.
• The family states Eliza lost the passport in Portugal in 2007 and returned to Brazil using an Authorization for Return, and they request custody of the document if confirmed authentic.
• Eliza’s mother condemned the publicity and reaffirmed that her daughter is dead, while there is no indication from authorities of any move to reopen the criminal case that led to Bruno’s 2013 conviction; her body was never found.