Former chief-of-staff for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Gleisi Hoffman, received R$1 million for a senate campaign from state-run oil company Petrobras, the Estado de São Paulo newspaper reported. The revelation was reportedly made by former Petrobras Director Paulo Roberto da Costa in testimony to the police on a series of funds diverted from the company. Ms. Hoffman, who is wife of Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo, successfully campaigned for the senate in 2010 and later took leave from the post to serve as Ms. Rousseff’s chief-of-staff. The allegations are the latest in a series of revelations from Mr. Costa, who also recently pointed out alleged regular transfers of funds to governing Workers’s Party officials and also to former opposition Social Democratic Party President Sergio Guerra. Both Ms. Hoffman, and her husband Paulo Bernardo, denied having any connection to Mr. Costa. The revelations come less than one week ahead of Brazil’s upcoming Presidental election. According to the latest polls, Ms. Rousseff trails challenging opposition candidate Aécio Neves in voter support by about two percentage points.