Police arrest Brazil’s finance minister under Lula and Rousseff

‘Brazilian police have arrested former Finance Minister Guido Mantega, who had served under presidents Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff.
Mantega was taken into custody on Thursday as part of the sweeping corruption investigation into the scandal engulfing the Latin American oil giant Petrobras.
The former minister, who maintained his post for nearly nine years, steered the country’s economy during the booming days of 2006 until 2014 when Petrobras plunged into economic bust, unprecedented in decades.’
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