Brazil's central bank has frozen four bank accounts belonging to ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva due to his recent conviction on corruption charges, the federal judge overseeing the case said Wednesday. The assets in question amount to more than 600,000 Brazilian reals ($190,000), according to the office of Sergio Moro, who last week sentenced Silva to 9? Moro said in his ruling that he requested the freezing of up to 10 million Brazilian reals, but the bank said it only found what was in the four accounts. The apartment is valued at about 2.2 million Brazilian reals ($700,000), according to investigators. Silva says the apartment was never his and he and his wife only visited once before declining to buy it.

Source: ABC News July 19, 2017 18:20 UTC