FOR BRIBERY AND MONEY LAUNDERING, FERNANDO COLLOR DE MELLO, THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL, RECEIVES A 106-MONTH SENTENCE.

Fernando Collor de Mello, a former president of Brazil, reportedly received an eight-year prison term for bribery and money laundering.

According to the German news agency dpa, Brazil’s Supreme Court punished the 73-year-old former president on June 1st. Approximately 30 million reais (almost $6 million) in bribes were collected by Collor de Mello, who served as president from March 1990 to December 1992, through a Petrobras subsidiary, the court found.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the current president of Brazil, was given a lengthy prison sentence for corruption and money laundering in 2017 and served 580 days behind bars. Later, the sentence was overturned by the Supreme Court.