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Brazil’s former president Lula given nine-and-a-half year jail term for corruption
Former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who rose from childhood poverty to become a two-term president, was convicted on corruption charges on Wednesday in the first of five graft trials he faces.
He was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. He will remain free on appeal.
He has denied any wrongdoing and say the charges against him – which claim he accepted a bribes in the form of an apartment in a corruption scandal linked to state oil company Petrobras – are politically mo…
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