Brazil ethics panel questions ex-speaker on bank accounts
Source: Associated Press
Brazil ethics panel questions ex-speaker on bank accounts
Updated 2:33 pm, Thursday, May 19, 2016
SAO PAULO (AP) — The ethics committee of Brazil's lower house began hearings Thursday that could lead to the expulsion of one of the country's most powerful lawmakers.
A Supreme Court decision earlier this month had already suspended Eduardo Cunha as speaker of the chamber of deputies, and now his colleagues are considering whether he should be kicked out of the body entirely.
Cunha is facing allegations of lying to congress by denying holding overseas bank accounts, an assertion he repeated at the hearing. He has been charged with corruption and obstruction of justice.
Swiss prosecutors contend that Cunha held secret accounts at the Julius Baer bank worth an estimated $5 million, funds that Brazilian investigators suspect are linked to a corruption scheme at state oil company Petrobras.
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