Ex-President Gets Nearly 9 Years In Jail For Corruption

Eko Hot Blog reports that a former Brazilian president, Fernando Collor de Mello, has been reportedly sentenced to eight years and ten months in prison for bribery and money laundering.

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The 73-year-old ex-president was sentenced by Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday, June 1. Collor de Mello, who was the president from March 1990 until December 1992, received around 30 million reais (US$6 million) in bribes from a subsidiary of state-run oil company Petrobras, according to the court.

Brazil’s current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sentenced to a long prison term in 2017 for corruption and money laundering and spent 580 days in prison.

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The Supreme Court later overturned the sentence.

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