LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's Congress dismissed the country's comptroller on Monday over accusations of misconduct, removing a key antagonist of the government as the opposition leader proposed a rare meeting with centrist President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
Lawmakers voted unanimously to remove Comptroller Edgar Alarcon from his post for allegedly directing public funds to the mother of his children, violating ethics rules by running a business in office and coercing an auditor to withhold information from Congress.
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