To be fair, Brazil does have weird and expensive customs/import duties on technology products, which makes a lot of hardware expensive. Maybe fly.io just didn't

To be fair, Brazil does have weird and expensive customs/import duties on technology products, which makes a lot of hardware expensive. Maybe fly.io just didn't know about it and that's why they say "suspicious"; But yeah, it definetely sounds like admitting to bribery, which as an American-registered company is illegal even in other countries.