Brazil’s ex-President Collor de Mello arrested after corruption sentence | Politics News

Collor, 75, held by federal police in the northeastern city of Maceio, capital of Alagoas state, lawyer says.

Brazil’s former President Fernando Collor de Mello has been arrested after a Supreme Court justice rejected his challenges against a previous conviction and ordered him to start serving jail time.

Collor’s lawyer, Marcelo Bessa, said the former leader was arrested at 4am (07:00 GMT) on Friday while travelling to Brazil’s capital Brasilia, where he planned to turn himself in…

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News Source: www.aljazeera.com

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