Petrobras case: Brazil’s former house speaker arrested on corruption charges | In English | EL PAÍS

And the veteran Cunha could be a source of compromising information for the PMDB and possibly for the president himself.
Eduardo Cunha, a once-powerful political figure who was speaker of Brazil’s lower house until May, was arrested on Wednesday near his official residence in Brasilia.
Cunha, 58, was flown to a penitentiary in Curitiba on corruption charges relating to a massive bribes-for-contracts scandal at Petrobras, the state-owned oil company.
But he still held on to his deputy’s seat, which afforded him some degree of legal immunity.
For months, prosecutors had been accusing him of holding over $5 million in Swiss bank accounts from bribes he took in the Petrobras scandal.

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