Brazilian former oil and mining tycoon Eike Batista has reportedly been arrested and transferred to a high-security prison in Rio de Janeiro for alleged corruption as part of a wider probe involving state-controlled Petrobras.

Batista, who denies any wrongdoing, was met by police after landing in Rio on a plane from New York on Monday morning local time before being escorted off the aircraft and initially taken to the city’s Ary Franco prison, according to media reports.

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