Brazil's former Finance Minister Guido Mantega (R) is escorted by federal police officers as he arrives at the Federal Police headquarters in Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 22, 2016. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian police arrested former Finance Minister Guido Mantega on Thursday as a sweeping corruption investigation further struck at the heart of the Workers Party (PT) that ran the country for 13 years.
Police investigators told a news conference they took Mantega, long a close confidant of recently impeached former President Dilma Rousseff and an early member of the PT, into custody at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo. He was there accompanying his wife as she prepared for surgery.
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