The Supreme Court of Brazil awarded this Thursday Home prison with electronic anklet To the former president Fernando Collor de Mellowhich was held in a macery jail after being convicted of corruption, official sources reported.
The Court ratified days ago condemnation for eight years and 10 months in jail against the former president, first elected ruler for universal suffrage in Brazil after the military dictatorship (1964-1985).
Magistrate Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the case, granted the benefit for “humanitarian reasons” after the defense of the ex -president of 75 years HAya alleged that he suffered “serious” health problems, as Parkinson and bipolar affective disorder.
The approval occurs after the approval of the Prosecutor’s Office generatesl, which defended on Wednesday the granting of house prison to Collor, stating that the documents presented by the lawyers of the former head of state proved the severity of their health status.
According to the entity, the health status of Collor de Mello could be compromised “if it is kept away from your home and the mandatory and protective measures that the State must guarantee.”
-Collor de Mello was arrested after Moraes rejected, last week, the last resort of the former senator and ordered the “immediate start of the conviction”, initially closed regime, A decision that was endorsed by most judges that make up the Supreme.
The former president was found guilty for participating in a plot of corruption in the company BR Distribuidora, former subsidiary of the state oil company Petrobras.
According to the sentence, Collor de Mello, with the collaboration of two entrepreneurs, “received 20 million reais (3.5 million dollars or 3.1 million euros to the current change) to irregularly viable BR Distributor contracts” with a third company “for the construction of fuel distribution bases.”
From the end of the military dictatorship, Four of the seven occupants of the Planalto presidential palace were convictedimprisoned or dismissed for different reasons.
The former president of the extreme right Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) is currently at the gates of a trial for an alleged coup attempt in 2022, after his defeat in the presidential elections of that year.
