Parliament denounced President Brazil

- Brazil's Supreme Court Wednesday gave permission for the prosecution of parliamentary chairman Eduardo Cunha for taking bribes. Cunha, a bitter rival of President Dilma Rousseff, recently had every possible effort to keep two other corruption charges of the body.

Cunha must now stand trial for his role in the purchase of two drilling vessels by state oil company Petrobras, which bribe would have been involved. Previously called justice all his resignation as chairman of the lower house because he had obstructed the judicial inquiry into corruption at Petrobras.

The ethics committee of parliament additionally examine whether Cunha lied about secret Swiss bank accounts. The outcome of that investigation could cost him his parliamentary seat.