A Brazilian federal court sentenced former president Michel Temer to return to prison, accused of corruption

A second instance court on Wednesday ruled that former Brazilian president Michel To fear (2016-2018) return to prison, where He spent four days in prison last March for suspicion of corruption.

The regional court of the second region (TRF-2) of Rio de Janeiro has fixed by 2 votes against 1 the return to prison of To fear, who he had already been arrested on March 21st by order of Judge Marcelo Bretas.

However, one of the TRF-2 judges granted the former president, 78, a habeas corpus before the decision was badyzed by the collegiate body, which made its decision on Wednesday.

The court also determined the return to prison of reserve colonel Joao Baptista Lima Filho, a personal friend of the former president, who was the main figurehead of the corrupt conspiracy he had directed To fear, according to the Brazilian prosecutor's office.

The former president, who, on January 1, handed the presidential scarf to the ultra-right Jair Bolsonaro, was arrested in March after the prosecution accused him of receiving bribes from various companies and to be the main leader of a criminal organization that had hijacked nearly $ 500 million of public resources for 40 years.

The defense lawyer of To fear Eduardo Carnelós regretted the decision of the court of second instance and repeated, in statements to reporters, that there was "no reason" for the prison of the former president, who came to power in 2016 after the dismissal of Dilma Rousseff, of which he was vice-president.

According to Carnelós, To fear will probably be presented this Thursday before the authorities, to avoid the "humiliations he suffered" when he was arrested on a public road in Sao Paulo last March, and then transferred to the headquarters of the Federal Police in Rio de Janeiro.

Since his departure, To fear, one of the most influential politicians in Brazil and who has chaired for more than a decade the party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), has been surrounded by several judicial complaints.

To fear He vehemently denied all the accusations and was declared a victim of "political persecution", the same argument invoked by former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, imprisoned since last April, for corruption as well.