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Brazil’s attorney general has asked federal police and prosecutors to investigate a report that the Trump administration planned to fund groups campaigning against Brazil’s Supreme Court, days before the country’s presidential election.

Getting into it: Attorney General Jorge Messias filed the complaint Thursday, a day after The Guardian reported that the Trump administration wanted to pull more than $175 million out of the State Department’s main human rights fund and spread it across conservative and right-wing causes around the world. The grants include a $1 million award titled “Countering lawfare and censorship in Brazil,” which would pay Brazilian groups that accuse the Supreme Court of overstepping its power and silencing critics. The Guardian also reported that the State Department pushed the grants through hours before a deadline despite objections from Congress.

The court, and especially Justice Alexandre de Moraes, oversaw the coup trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro, a close friend of Trump who is serving a 27-year prison sentence. Bolsonaro’s movement sees the court as its biggest enemy.

In a statement, Messias said, “Disagreements between governments are inherent to international relations. What cannot be tolerated is for foreign political interests to seek to interfere in the functioning of Brazilian institutions or to influence, directly or indirectly, choices that belong exclusively to the Brazilian people.”

The Trump administration has a history of pressuring Brazil over the Bolsonaro case. Last year, Trump slapped 50% tariffs on some Brazilian goods while calling the prosecution a “witch hunt,” revoked visas for Brazilian judicial officials and briefly sanctioned Moraes. In June, a court convicted Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo of lobbying the US to step into his father’s case and sentenced him to more than four years in prison. Brazil’s intelligence agency also flagged US pressure as “critical” in a mid-September warning to the government ahead of the election.

This all comes just before Sunday’s first round of voting, in which President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva faces Bolsonaro’s eldest son, Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro, a Trump ally who was hosted at the White House in May.