Former President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sentenced to 9 XNUMX/XNUMX years in prison for corruption and money laundering accused of being the hidden owner of a luxury apartment on the coast of São Paulo. For the moment, however, he will not go to prison, he will remain free until the appeal sentence.
The conviction in the first instance was issued by Judge Sergio Moro – public prosecutor of Curitiba – and comes in the context of one of the trials of the Lava Jato investigation, the Brazilian Mani Pulite, in which Lula was a defendant.
Lula was retained guilty of receiving bribes amounting to 3,7 million reais (just over one million euros) – partly recycled in the renovation of a luxury penthouse in Guarujà, on the coast of São Paulo – due to three contracts stipulated between the construction company OAS and the state oil giant, Petrobras.
