After playing hide and seek, Brazil’s ex-President Lula turns himself in to police

Embattled former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has finally turned himself in to local police after initially defying for some 24 hours a court deadline to submit himself to police.

Reports say Lula, 72, finally handed himself over to police to begin a 12-year prison sentence for corruption after he left the steel-workers union building where he had sought refuge.

After turning himself in to police, the former leader was taken away from the premises in an industrial suburb of Sao Paulo in a convoy of black police cars, Globo TV reported.

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Three days ago, a final verdict on the habeas corpus plea filed by Lula was taken by the Supreme Court in Brazil which rejected the former leader’s bid to avoid prison.

According to reports, the pivotal vote was cast by Justice Rosa Weber against Lula’s request to avoid jail and begin serving his 12-year sentence for accepting bribes.

 

 

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