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Brazil Supreme Court seizes anti-Rousseff lawmaker's alleged assets
http://www.dw.com/en/brazil-supreme-court-seizes-anti-rousseff-lawmakers-alleged-assets/a-18802943The lower house speaker has denied allegations he received kickbacks from the Petrobras scandal. The Supreme Court's decision comes amid a congressional report that denies "institutional corruption" at the oil giant.
Brazil Supreme Court seizes anti-Rousseff lawmaker's alleged assets
24.10.2015
The Brazil Supreme Court this week seized $2.45 million (2.22 million euros) from Swiss accounts allegedly belonging to Chamber of Deputies Speaker Eduardo Cunha, a self-proclaimed enemy of President Dilma Rousseff.
According to Justice Teori Zavascki, who approved the request to seize the speaker's funds, Swiss prosecutors provided documents to Brazilian federal prosecutors linking Cunha and his wife to the assets.
However, the house speaker denied the allegations, saying he nor his wife own any bank accounts in Switzerland.
Brazilian federal prosecutors say that Cunha is suspected in Brazil's largest kickback scandal, comprising more than $2 billion in bribes paid to several executives and politicians.
