The former president, 75, was arrested at dawn on Friday (25) in Maceió. The politician will serve a sentence closed by the crimes of passive and money laundering.
According to the defense, he was arrested at 4am, when he was moving to Brasilia for spontaneous compliance with the minister’s decision.
Collor to a sentence of eight years and ten months in prison. On Thursday (24), the minister denied the last appeals presented by his defense and determined the immediate arrest.
“Former President Fernando Collor de Mello is currently in custody at the Federal Police Superintendence in the capital of Alagoas. This is the information we have so far,” says a statement of the defense.
According to Moraes, the former president’s lawyers only repeated arguments already faced by the court at other times. This would show only one attempt to delay the serving of the penalty.
Collor is accused of receiving bribes from a corruption scheme at BR Distribuidora, a subsidiary company of Petrobras, in a criminal action derived from. Proofs found in the donor’s office in addition to testimonials from employees of the operation, were used as evidence in the action.
Collor’s defense said in the evening of a note, by means of a note, received “with surprise and concern the decision” that denied the appeal. The lawyers held the Supreme Court that the accusations are based only on award -winning allegations and there would be no evidence.
The complaint was filed by the PGR (Attorney General of the Republic) in August 2015. The former president influenced, according to the conviction, the command and boards of the company BR Distribuidora, from 2010 to 2014, to ensure the signing of state contracts with the construction company UTC. In return, Collor would have received $ 20 million.
The Supreme Court judged in November 2024 Collor’s first appeal. His defense requested the revision of the penalty of passive corruption, on the grounds that the deadline stipulated in the judgment was not equivalent to the average deadlines presented in the divergent votes of the ministers.
In practice, the defense was trying to reduce the penalty for passive corruption to a level that would make the crime prescribe.
In this scenario, the former president would have to comply only the conviction for money laundering, stipulated in four years and six months.
The understanding of the Supreme, however, was unfavorable to Collor. By 6 votes against 4, the plenary understood that the defense request to review the conviction did not deserve to prosper.
Fernando Collor de Mello was president of Brazil from 1990 to 1992, when he was dismissed in impeachment and resigned. He was acquitted in 1994, also in the Supreme Court, of accusation of passive corruption regarding his term of presidency.
From 2007 to 2023, he was a senator by Alagoas. In 2022, he disputed the government of Alagoas for the PTB, but ended in third place.
Collor is heir to an Alagoas family with a history of political participation. Graduated in economics, he was mayor of Maceió in 1979 and then federal deputy for the PDS (Social Democratic Party).
In 1986, he won the election for governor of Alagoas with a campaign focused on combating corruption. This speech helped to project it.
He was elected by the PRN (National Reconstruction Party) in the 1989 election after competing for a second round against. It was the first to reach the position of President of the Republic through popular vote after the.
The politician took over the federal government in March 1990. Two years and nine months later, when he left office, was replaced by his deputy, Itamar Franco (PMDB), who ruled the country until the end of office in 1994.
Collor’s fall featured complaints made by his own brother, Pedro Collor de Mello, and the involvement of the former president’s treasurer of the campaign,. The charges included the knowledge of an influence trafficking scheme within the government and corruption in reforms at the Dinda House, a mansion of his property in Brasilia.
