Sérgio Cabral Filho

Sérgio de Oliveira Cabral Santos Filho (born January 27, 1963) is a Brazilian politician and journalist who served as the governor of Rio de Janeiro from 2007 to 2014. A member of MDB, he previously served as the president of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro from 1995 to 2003, and was a senator for Rio de Janeiro from 2003 to 2007. Cabral was convicted on charges of corruption and money laundering as part of Operation Car Wash in 2017.

The son of journalist Sérgio Cabral and a graduate of Centro Universitário da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, he successfully ran for Rio de Janeiro's state assembly in 1990. Cabral served as a representative from 1991 to 2003, having served as its president from 1995 to 2003. He unsuccessfully ran for Mayor of Rio de Janeiro in the elections of 1992 and 1996.

In the 2002 general elections, he was elected senator for the state of Rio de Janeiro, a position he occupied from January 2003 until December 2006, when he resigned to run in the Rio de Janeiro gubernatorial elections, having been replaced in Brazilian Senate by . He was elected governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro in the 2006 Brazilian general election and sworn into office on January 1, 2007.

Cabral became widely known for his implication in Operation Car Wash, having accepted bribes in exchange for construction contracts and paid members of the International Olympic Committee to vote in favor of bringing the 2016 Summer Olympics to Rio de Janeiro. He was arrested on charges of corruption in 2016, charged with corruption and money laundering, and received multiple sentences totaling over 400 years. In 2024, some of his charges were annulled. Provided by Wikipedia