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Montevideo, April 20th 2024 - 00:16 UTC

Tag: Transparency International Brazil

  • Tuesday, September 13th 2016 - 09:42 UTC

    Brazilian congress expels lawmaker who engineered Rousseff's impeachment

    Cunha's downfall has many politicians worried: he has threatened to bring down others by revealing cases of corruption that could endanger Temer's government

    Two weeks after the removal of Dilma Rousseff as Brazil's president, the lower house of Congress on Monday expelled the lawmaker who engineered her impeachment for lying about secret bank accounts in Switzerland. The once powerful former speaker Eduardo Cunha, who has been charged with corruption by the Supreme Court, was banned from politics for eight years and faces arrest now he has lost his congressional prerogatives.