Eduardo Cunha, former lower house speaker who was expelled from office, being investigated for allegedly taking bribes to liberate funds from state bank
Eduardo Cunha, the Brazilian politician who orchestrated the impeachment of the country’s first female president, Dilma Rousseff, has been arrested on corruption charges.
Federal police detained the once powerful former speaker of the lower house in Brasilia on Wednesday and executed a search warrant at his home in Rio de Janeiro, according to the office of judge Sergio Moro.
He is being investigated for allegedly taking bribes to liberate funds from the Caixa Economica Federal, a state bank, among other crimes.
Compared by some to Frank Underwood from House of Cards, Cunha has also been accused of taking up to 116.5m reais ($37m) in bribes as part of the Operation Car Wash investigation into mammoth corruption at state oil giant Petrobras.
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