Tag: Joao Santana

• Monday, May 9th 2016 - 11:20 UTC

  JBS denies making illegal payments for Rousseff's campaign in 2014

  

  JBS SA, the world's largest beef producer, denied a Saturday newspaper report that it had made illegal payments for President Dilma Rousseff's 2014 reelection campaign. O Globo newspaper, citing leaked testimony given to federal investigators by Monica Moura, the wife of Rousseff's campaign chief Joao Santana, earlier reported that JBS paid the Rousseff campaign's debt to Focal, a Sao Paulo-based visual communications firm.

• Friday, April 29th 2016 - 07:10 UTC

  “The maker of presidents” (including Lula, Dilma and Chavez) formally charged with corruption

  

  Brazilian prosecutors charged political strategist Joao Santana, the architect of President Dilma Rousseff’s 2010 and 2014 election victories, and 16 others with corruption on Thursday as part of a massive graft investigation.

• Monday, February 29th 2016 - 20:42 UTC

  Arrest of Rousseff key advisor brings more uncertainty to her administration

  

  A member of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff’s inner circle who masterminded her two successful election campaigns, Joao Santana is accused by prosecutors of receiving payment for his services in money illegally siphoned from state oil company Petrobras.