Former parliament speaker cell in Brazil

são paulo - The former president of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Cunha, was sentenced Thursday to prison for fifteen years. The federal court found him guilty of corruption. The lawyers of the former politician said immediately going to appeal against the verdict signs. Cunha have to wait in jail.

Cunha was the driving force behind the forced departure of President Dilma Rousseff. She had to step down after allegations of corruption and nepotism. In July last year, Cunha himself lost his position as parliamentary speaker. In October, he was arrested on suspicion of taking bribes. He would have held half million dollars to the purchase of an oil field in Benin by the Brazilian state oil company Petrobras.