Brazil president Rousseff’s and Dominican President Danilo Medina’s campaign chief advisor, Joao Santana, was sentenced this week to eight years in prison for his ties to the corruption network operating at the Petrobras company in Brazil. Santana was also known as “the maker of presidents.” His wife Monica Moura also received a jail sentence for being part of the corruption network.
In Brazil, Santana was the lead advisor of the 2006 re-election campaign of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and those that lead Dilma Rousseff to victories in 2010 and 2014.
At the time of the start of the case for corruption, Santana was working in the Dominican Republic. He was a key advisor in the 2011-12 election campaign of Medina. He quit his post in the re-election campaign of President Danilo Medina to travel to Brazil to defend himself from what he said were “baseless accusations”.
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7 Dias
3 February 2017
