The former treasurer of Brazil's governing Workers' Party, Joao Vaccari Neto, has been sentenced to 15 years and four months in jail for corruption and money laundering.
He is the closest person yet to President Dilma Rousseff to be sentenced over the case, which has led to calls for her impeachment.
But prosecutors say there is nothing to implicate her directly.
A former director of the state oil giant Petrobras was also sentenced.
Renato Duque, the former director of services at Petrobras, got 20 years and eight months.
Vaccari and Duque deny the charges. They are expected to appeal.
These are the longest and the most significant sentences yet in a corruption scandal that is undermining the stability and authority of President Rousseff's government, says the BBC's Wyre Davies in Rio de Janeiro.
Government supporters accuse conservative politicians and businessmen of attempting to associate the corruption at Petrobras with the Workers Party in order to topple her left-wing government.
(BBC)
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