SÃO BERNARDO DO CAMPO: Brazil’s former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Saturday he had been falsely accused of corruption but was ready to surrender for arrest. “I am the only human being to be put on trial for an apartment which does not belong to me,” he said. Despite his legal problems, Lula is the frontrunner in polls. Lula said he wanted to go to prison and had rejected multiple suggestions of fleeing or seeking asylum abroad. Lula was ordered to surrender to the authorities on Friday, but missed the deadline, staying holed-up with his supporters at the metalworkers’ union building in his hometown Sao Bernardo do Campo, near Sao Paulo.

Source: New Strait Times April 07, 2018 15:56 UTC