Story highlights Lawmaker ejected for corruption weeks after engineering former leader's ousterMove comes after he had been suspended by Supreme Court(CNN) The politician who led the charge to impeach Brazil's former President Dilma Rousseff has himself been ousted from power. Eduardo Cunha, the former speaker of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies, was removed from office Monday night by a landslide vote in the chamber of 450 votes to 10 with nine abstentions. Lawmakers decided overwhelmingly that Cunha had lied during the investigation into corruption at Brazil's state-run oil company, Petrobras, and had hid millions of dollars in offshore accounts. On top of losing his seat as speaker, Cunha also loses all political privileges for eight years. The corruption investigation has already brought down some of the country's top political and business leaders.

Source: CNN September 13, 2016 04:30 UTC