the Supreme Court of Brazil Wednesday’s ruling on the former president Fernando Collor de Mello imprisonment for eight years and ten months Corruption crimes passive and Money launderingin a trial of bribes he deemed proven that he took between 2010 and 2014, when he was a senator.
The verdict was issued by the highest court in the seventh session of the trial of the former president, after Collor de Melo was sentenced. Admission of guilt Last Thursday by a majority of the ten justices who make up the Supreme Federal Court (STF), with eight votes in favor and two against.
According to the decision of the Supreme Court, the ex-president will have to start serving his sentence in it closed systemAccording to the agency efe. However, since you can still appeal the decision and have criminal benefits because of your age (73), He will remain free Until the adjudication of all appeals filed by his defence.
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The last sentence was approx four times smaller That the 33-year-old was initially suggested by Judge Edson Fashin, the coach of the case, along with a fine of 20 million reais ($4 million or 3.4 million euros), which on Wednesday was transferred to the court. 450 minimum wage fine (about 594,000 riyals / 117,159 dollars / 110,000 euros).
According to the complaint filed against Collor de Mello by the Public Prosecutor’s Office in 2015, the former head of state used his influence in politics to take advantage of fraudulent contracts With BR Distribuidora, a subsidiary of the state oil company Petrobras, to businessman Joao Lira, with whom he maintains a “friendly relationship”.
For mediation in awarding such contracts with a total value 240 million riyals (currently $48 million), the former president received a “commission” equivalent to approx 15% of this amountas proven by justice.
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Collor de Melo ruled Brazil between 1990 and 1992, when he resigned his term at a time when Parliament was preparing to end an impeachment trial against him, in order to Accusations of alleged corruption which was later acquitted in the same Supreme Court.
Between 2007 and 2023 he held a seat in the Senate and was in the last year Unsuccessful filter To the position of governor of the state of Alagoas, which he had occupied before his accession to the Presidency of the Republic.
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