BRASILIA –
Ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday by a federal judge and sentenced to 9,5 years in prison for corruption and money laundering. Lula was by judge Sérgio Moro, along with six medebeklaagden convicted, reported the Brazilian media. Lula da Silva appealed.
He was at the beginning of 2003 to 2011 president, on behalf of the leftist Party of the Workers (PT). He would, according to the court in this criminal case for approximately one million euros in bribes have been adopted by a large construction company.
Lula da Silva is in a total of five criminal cases accused of corruption. This is the first judgment.