A Brazilian congressional ethics committee decided on Monday to investigate whether lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha lied in a corruption hearing about Swiss bank accounts that prosecutors say he controls.
The probe threatens the political career of Cunha, the sole member of Congress with authority to take up impeachment requests filed against President Dilma Rousseff.
Cunha has leveraged his power over potential impeachment proceedings to neutralize Rousseff’s Workers’ Party on the 21-member committee, whose investigation could drag on until April.
Congressman Fausto Pinato of the Evangelical Christian PRB party, who is in charge of the case, said there were grounds to investigate a breach of conduct by Cunha, including evidence provided by Switzerland of accounts held by the speaker and his wife at the Julius Baer bank.
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