Brazil’s supreme court sentenced former president Fernando Collor de Mello to eight years and 10 months in prison on corruption and money laundering charges. The Brazilian prosecutor’s office accused Collor, 73, of having received about 30 million reals ($6 million) in bribes from a subsidiary of state-run oil company Petrobras. Collor became Brazil’s first democratically elected president in 1989 after a two-decade military dictatorship.
