Transparency International - Daily Corruption News (17 Nov 2015)

17 November 2015 Today's top story Brazil: Brazil speaker faces ethics investigation on Swiss accounts Reuters A Brazilian congressional ethics committee decided on Monday to investigate whether lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha lied in a corruption hearing about Swiss bank accounts that prosecutors say he controls.

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