Brazil: former president sentenced to almost 9 years in prison for corruption

The former president of Brazil, Fernando Collor de Mello, in office from 1990 to 1992, was sentenced by the Supreme Court (Std) to eight years and ten months in prison for passive corruption and money laundering, in an investigation derived from the operation 'Lava Jato', the vast investigation into the black funds in Petrobras which began in 2014 and is considered the green-gold 'Clean Hands'.

Collor was also found guilty of receiving 20 million reais (3.7 million euros) between 2010 and 2014, when he was a senator, to illegally facilitate contracts between a construction company and a former subsidiary of Petrobras.