Police had raided the home of Paulo Roberto Costa on Monday and found $180,000 in US dollars and 720,000 reais in cash, according to Estadao news.
A police sweep targeting the Lava Jato operation exercised 24 arrest warrants in 17 cities and six states across Brazil, according to the report.
Costa was replaced in 2012 by Jose Carlos Cosenza as the Brazilian state player's top downstream official by then-entering chief executive Maria das Gracas Foster.
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