Suspended House Speaker Eduardo Cunha arrives for a news conference in Brasilia, Brazil, June 21, 2016. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday indicted suspended speaker of the lower house Eduardo Cunha on charges of money laundering and illegal currency dealing, dragging the powerful politician further into the sweeping scandal involving state-oil company Petrobras.
"There is concrete evidence that deputy Eduardo Cunha received (illicit) funds," Teori Zavascki, the supreme court justice overseeing the case, said in the ruling.
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