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Brazilian President Rousseff's campaign chief to be jailed for corruption, bribery

Xinhua, February 24, 2016 Adjust font size:

The publicist for Brazil's ruling Workers Party and campaign chief for President Dilma Rousseff's re-election campaign gave himself up Tuesday to local police after an order for his arrest was released.

Joao Santana landed in Sao Paulo on Tuesday from the Dominican Republic, where he had been working on the re-election campaign for President Danilo Medina. Santana has been implicated in the police investigation into the state company Petrobras corruption scandal.

Upon arriving in Brazil, Santana and his wife, Monica Moura, were taken in a police plane to the southern city of Curitiba and driven to the judicial center which has been leading the investigation into Petrobras.

On Monday, a Brazilian court issued an arrest warrant against the couple for their presumed part in laundering money through offshore companies in tax havens linked to the Brazilian construction giant, Odebrecht.

Brazil's federal police stated Tuesday that they had found documents registering details of Rousseff's campaign expenditures in 2008 and 2012, which revealed Santana had illegally deposited 3 million U.S. dollars in a Swiss bank account.

They also alleged that Santana had been bribed in 2014 by Keppel Fels, the Brazil subsidiary of Singapore oil rig builder, Keppel Corporation Ltd. Endi