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Free abelian subgroups of $\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{Z})$

Does anybody know what is the biggest $r$ such that $\mathbb{Z}^r$ is isomorphic to a subgroup of $\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{Z})$? It cannot be bigger that the virtual cohomological dimension of $\...