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Ex-president, Fernando Collor de Mello, bags 106 months imprisonment for bribery and money laundering
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.
German news agency (dpa) reports that 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 corr¥ption and money laundering and spent 580 days in prison. The Supreme Court later overturned the sentence.
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