User:Bageense/Prisão de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

thumb|350x350px|Lula (in a grey suit) arrives at the headquarters of the Federal Policide of Brazil. Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was arrested in April 7, 2018.

In July 12, 2017, Sérgio Moro, federal judge, had sentenced Lula to nine and a half years in prison because of alleged crimes, such as passive corruption and money laundring involvind a triplex apartment in Guarujá that, according to the prosecutors, belonged to him. Later, the sentence was increased by second instance judges to 12 years and a month, allowing Moro, on April 5, to issue an arrest warrant againt Lula. The triplex was being investigated as part of the broader Operation Car Wash, a massive corruption investigation that is still ongoing.

At the moment, Lula is serving his prison time in Curitiba, at the headquarters of the Federal Police.

Lula is the first former-president of Brazil to be condemned for a common crime, rather than a White-collar crime. Before him, other six presidents have been arrested, but all of them due to political reasons.