In a big move, Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of a former president. On April 24, Judge Alexandre de Moraes decided that Fernando Collor de Mello must go to jail right away. This ...

Fernando Collor, Brazil’s former president, has been arrested and ordered to begin serving his prison sentence for corruption. Convicted in 2023 for accepting $3.5 million in bribes to ...

Collor was arrested on April 25 in the northeastern city of Maceio after the Supreme Court rejected his challenges against a previous conviction and ordered him to start serving jail time.

Collor's lawyer, Marcelo Bessa, said he was arrested at 4:00 a.m. local time (0700 GMT) while traveling to Brazil's capital Brasilia, where he planned to turn himself in following Supreme Court ...

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 against a previous conviction ...

Brazil's former president Fernando Collor de Mello was arrested and taken to prison Friday to begin serving a nearly nine-year sentence for corruption and money laundering, the latest former leader ...

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 ...

Fernando Collor de Mello, Brazil’s first democratically-elected president, was convicted of taking US$3.5 million in bribes and sentenced to nine years in jail.

Collor, 75, was the first Brazilian president elected by popular vote, in 1989, after a 21-year military dictatorship. He was impeached and removed from office by Congress in 1992 following ...

Collor de Mello was heralded as a youthful, non-conformist figure, who promised far-reaching political and social reforms when he beat the leftist Lula to the presidency in 1989.

BRASILIA (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 against a ...