The office of Judge SERGIO MORO and police officials said former Congressman EDUARDO CUNHA was arrested following allegations of pocketing millions of dollars in bribes from contractors with the oil company Petrobras.
He was reportedly arrested on an order issued by Judge SERGIO MORO, who has led the nationwide investigation into the corruption scandal.
MORO ordered CUNHA’S detention, citing risks to “public order, as well as a concrete possibility of flight given his access to hidden resources abroad, as well as double nationality.”
Recall that CUNHA began the process of impeaching ROUSSEFF in December when he was speaker of the lower house of Congress.
