Former Brazilian president Fernando Collor de Mello, who was found guilty of fraud and wealth fraud, has received a nearly nine-year prison sentence from Brazil’s Supreme Court.
Collor de Mello, Brazil’s first democratically elected leader since decades-long rule, was detained and imprisoned last week to start serving his sentence.
He was found guilty in 2023 of receiving 20 million reais ($ 3.5 million ) in bribes while serving as a senator between 2010 and 2014 to “irregularly facilitate contracts” between a construction company and a former subsidiary of Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras.
A whole bench of the Supreme Court upheld his decision in a late-night conference on Monday after he lost an elegance to the court next week. His case is just one of several emerging from the extensive” Car Wash” corruption scandal, which implicates dozens of powerful businesspeople and officials in Latin America and other countries.
A huge community of money were paid by large design companies to politicians to win important public works contracts during the investigation. Colombia’s first senator to violate the law is Colombia’s Colombia de Mello, who served from 1990 to 1992.
Four of the seven people who have taken the nation from the military dictatorship of 1964-1985 have either been found guilty, imprisoned, or imprisoned. In the most recent event, far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro was ordered to go on trial for a alleged revolution story after losing elections in 2022.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who served two terms between 2003 and 2010, spent a year and a half behind bars in a situation involving a car wash before having his conviction overturned and winning a second term in October 2022.
