Romeu Tuma | |
Office: | Senator for São Paulo |
Term Start: | February 1, 1995 |
Term End: | October 26, 2010 |
Office1: | Director-General of the Federal Police of Brazil |
Term Start1: | January 29, 1986 |
Term End1: | April 29, 1992 |
President1: | José Sarney Fernando Collor |
Predecessor1: | Luiz de Alencar Araripe |
Successor1: | Amaury Aparecido Galdino |
Birth Date: | 4 October 1931 |
Birth Place: | São Paulo, Brazil |
Death Place: | São Paulo, Brazil |
Spouse: | Zilda Dirane Tuma |
Occupation: | Politician and former police officer |
Romeu Tuma (October 4, 1931 – October 26, 2010) was a Brazilian politician and a former director of the Federal Police.[1]
Tuma was born on October 4, 1931, in São Paulo, Brazil, to a family of Syrian descent.[2] He died on October 26, 2010, of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, in the Sirio-Libanês Hospital in São Paulo, where he had been since September, suffering from infectious aphonia.[3]