The political marketing guru who helped President Dilma Rousseff win two elections has returned to Brazil to be arrested.
Joao Santana, the campaign strategist behind the president's election victories in 2010 and 2014, was taken into custody Tuesday morning after landing in Sao Paulo after a flight from the Dominican Republic. Police are scheduled to transfer him to the southern city of Curitiba later in the day.
Police issued an arrest warrant on Monday for Santana and his wife, Monica Moura. They are accused of receiving millions of dollars in illicit funds from Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction company under investigation for its role in a kickback scandal involving the state-run oil company, Petrobras.
