Source: International Business Times
Former Brazilian president Fernando Collor de Mello served under three years as president before resigning over corruption allegation but was later convicted of bribe-taking as a senator and sentenced to nearly nine years in prison AFP 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 to face jail time. Collor de Mello, Brazil's first democratically elected president after a decades-long dictatorship, resigned in 1992 after congress launched impeachment proceedings against him for allegedly taking bribes. His arrest stems from a conviction over bribes taken two decades later while a senator, part of the sprawling "Car Wash" corruption scandal.
