Former President of Brazil Fernando Collor de Mello was imprisoned. He was arrested on Friday in the north-eastern city of Maceio, after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal from the previous conviction and ordered him to start a prison sentence.
Advocate Marcelo Bessa, quoted by Reuters, indicated that his client was arrested while traveling to the capital of Brazil, where he planned to give himself to justice in accordance with the arrest warrant issued by the Supreme Court Alexandre de Moraes.
The former president was detained by the Federal Police in Maceio, the capital of Alagoas.
The Supreme Court convicted Collora, the first president who won the universal vote after the end of the last Brazilian military dictatorship in 1985, at 8 years and 10 months in prison in 2023 on charges of corruption and money laundering.
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Reuters indicates that the conviction in 2023 occurred after Brazilian prosecutors accused Collora of receiving around 30 million real ($ 5.28 million) bribes from the then subsidiary of the Petrobras State State Country.
Fernando Collor de Mello took the office of president in 1990.but he did not finish his term, because two years later Congress decided about his impeachment in connection with a separate corruption scandal, for which the Supreme Court acquitted him in 1994.
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Later he was elected a senator representing the state of Alagoas. He left the Congress at the beginning of 2023 after the unsuccessful candidacy for the Governor of the State Alagoas.
