> Lula was found guilty by the lower court of accepting R$3.7 million in bribes ($1.2 million US) in the form of improvements to a beachfront house, alleged to be his property, made by a construction company Grupo OAS (pt), which in turn received lucrative contracts from the state-owned oil company Petrobras.[97] On 12 July 2017, he received a sentence of nine and a half years in prison.[98] ...
On 25 January 2018 the Appeal Court of Porto Alegre found Lula guilty of corruption and money laundering and sentenced him to 12 years of prison[100]. On 26 March 2018 the Supreme Federal Tribunal …