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Brazil’s ex-president Collor de Mello arrested in corruption case
2 years ago(FILES) Brazilian Senator and former President (1990-1992) Fernando Collor de Mello delivers a speech during the debate on suspending and impeaching President Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia on May 11, 2016. A Brazilian supreme court judge ordered on April 24, 2025 the imprisonment of former president Fernando Collor de Mello, sentenced in 2023 to eight years and ten months in prison for corruption in an investigation derived from the Lava Jato mega-case. (Photo by EVARISTO SA / AFP)
Brazil's former president Fernando Collor de Mello was arrested Friday, a federal police source told AFP, after a top court upheld his nearly nine-year sentence on corruption and money laundering…
