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Police: Ex-leader of Brazil's Lower House Arrested on Graft Charges

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Eduardo Cunha, the former head of Brazil's lower house of Congress who led the impeachment drive against former President Dilma Rousseff, was arrested Wednesday on corruption charges. Cunha, one-time leader of the Evangelical Christian caucus in the House of Deputies, is accused of receiving millions in bribes from the purchase of an oil field in Benin by state-run oil company Petrobras, which led to his arrest Wednesday. In a separate case before a federal court in Rio de Janeiro,...

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