Brazil Supreme Court judge orders arrest of former president in corruption case

[Judi Lynn]

Top court rejects appeal, upholds eight years and 10 months sentence for Fernando Collor de Mello

Yasin Gungor |
25.04.2025 - Update : 25.04.2025


ISTANBUL

Brazil's Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the immediate arrest of former President Fernando Collor de Mello after rejecting a second appeal in a corruption case, the court announced Thursday.

Collor was sentenced to eight years and 10 months in prison for his role in a corruption scheme involving BR Distribuidora, Brazil's state-owned fuel distributor. Moraes asked Supreme Court President Luis Roberto Barroso to convene an extraordinary virtual session to endorse the decision, with the session scheduled for Friday.

According to court documents, Collor and businessmen Luis Pereira Duarte de Amorim and Pedro Paulo Bergamaschi de Leoni Ramos received 20 million reais ($3.52 million) to improperly facilitate contracts between BR Distribuidora and UTC Engenharia for the construction of fuel distribution centers.

The court found that the payments were made in exchange for political support for appointing and maintaining directors at the state-owned company.

More:
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/brazil-supreme-court-judge-orders-arrest-of-former-president-in-corruption-case/3548106

[Irish_Dem]

1. In the US, we give criminal and corrupt presidents total immunity.

And let him destroy the country as much as he wants.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello, Champion of privatization.

"President" Collor de Mello

Wikipedia

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Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello (Brazilian Portuguese: [feʁˈnɐ̃dwaˈfõsu ˈkɔloʁ dʒi ˈmɛlu]; born 12 August 1949) is a Brazilian politician who served as the 32nd president of Brazil from 1990 to 1992, when he resigned in a failed attempt to stop his impeachment trial by the Brazilian Senate. Collor was the first president democratically elected after the end of the Brazilian military dictatorship. He became the youngest president in Brazilian history, taking office at the age of 40. After he resigned from the presidency, the impeachment trial on charges of corruption continued. Collor was found guilty by the Senate and disqualified from holding elected office for eight years (1992–2000). He was later acquitted of ordinary criminal charges in his judicial trial before Brazil's Supreme Federal Court, for lack of valid evidence.

Fernando Collor was born into a political family. He is the son of the former Senator Arnon Affonso de Farias Mello and Leda Collor (daughter of former Labour Minister Lindolfo Collor, led by his father, former governor of Alagoas and proprietor of the Arnon de Mello Organization, a media conglomerate which manages the state-wide television station TV Gazeta de Alagoas, the affiliate of TV Globo in the state.) "Collor" is a Portuguese adaptation of the German surname Köhler, from his maternal grandfather Lindolfo Leopoldo Boeckel Collor.

His time as president was marked by the implementation of the "Collor Plan", the launch of a national privatization program, and the opening of the domestic market to imports, which had a significant impact on the growth of the consumer car market. The plan, initially well-received, ultimately deepened the economic recession, exacerbated by the elimination of over 920,000 jobs in 1990; in addition, allegations of political corruption involving Collor's treasurer, Paulo César Farias, made by his brother Pedro Collor de Mello, led to an impeachment process against him. Before the process could be finalized, the president resigned on December 29, 1992, handing over the position to his vice president, Itamar Franco, just hours before being convicted by the Federal Senate for crimes of responsibility, resulting in the loss of his political rights for eight years. During his presidency, he signed the Treaty of Asunción in 1991, the founding document of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). He merged IAPAS and INPS, creating the current federal agency, the National Social Security Institute (INSS). He led the proceedings of the "Earth Summit" at ECO-92. He also officially approved the demarcation of the Yanomami Indigenous Territory.

Later, after some time living in obscurity, Collor served as Senator for Alagoas from February 2007 to February 2023. He first won election in 2006 and was reelected in 2014. In August 2017, Collor was accused by Brazil's Supreme Federal Court of receiving around US$9 million in bribes between 2010 and 2014 from Petrobras subsidiary BR Distributor.

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Collor_de_Mello




Parade of dweebs





Collor de Mello sitting with a BFF, Jair Bolsonaro, AKA "Trump of the Tropics"