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.

BRASILIA, April 25 (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello was arrested on Friday in the northeastern city of Maceio after a Supreme Court justice rejected his challenges ...

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello was arrested today in the northeastern city of Maceio after a Supreme Court justice rejected his challenges ...

The 2023 conviction came after Brazilian prosecutorsaccused Collor of receiving around 30 million reais ($5.28 million) in bribes from a then subsidiary of state-run oil company Petrobras.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s former President Fernando Collor was arrested early on Friday in the northeastern state of Alagoas and ordered to begin serving a prison sentence stemming from his ...

Former president Fernando Collor, 75, was arrested this Friday (25) in Maceió. The politician will serve a prison sentence under a closed regime for the crimes of passive corruption and money ...

Brazil’s former president, Fernando Collor de Mello was arrested on Friday and taken to prison to begin serving a nearly nine-year sentence for corruption and money laundering. This marks ...