Brazilian speaker of the lower house of Congress expelled after leading charge to impeach President

Two weeks after the removal of Dilma Rousseff as Brazil’s president, the lower house of Congress has expelled the politician who engineered her impeachment for lying about secret bank accounts in Switzerland. Eduardo Cunha, who has been charged with corruption by the Supreme Court, was on Monday banned from politics for eight years and faces arrest…

Eduardo Cunha, the man dubbed Brazil’s most corrupt, and former speaker of the lower house has been stripped of his seat. The chamber voted 450-10 to remove him from office. He was charged with corruption and denied the existence of Swiss bank accounts, he now faces arrest. Defending himself, he said he was ‘paying the price’…