Brazil Ex-President Collor Arrested After Corruption Conviction
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Brazil’s former President Fernando Collor de Mello is set to begin serving a prison sentence over a conviction on corruption and money laundering charges.
Collor, who led Brazil from 1990 to 1992 as the country’s first popularly-elected president after a military dictatorship, was arrested in the early hours of Friday in Maceio, capital of the Northeastern state of Alagoas, as he traveled to Brasilia to present himself to the police, his lawyer said in a statement.