If Peru’s Congress sets the impeachment process in motion it would make Kuczynski the highest-profile political figure to be punished in the Odebrecht scandal. Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski on Thursday will face his country’s Congress over allegations of graft and covering up ties to a disgraced Brazilian construction group, with many lawmakers seeking to impeach him.If Peru’s Congress sets the impeachment process in motion it would make Kuczynski the highest-profile political figure to be punished in the expanding scandal surrounding Odebrecht, a Brazilian engineering and construction firm that admitted to paying millions of dollars in bribes in several Latin American countries to secure public works contracts.”I will defend my moral capacity,” Kuczynski, 79, said of Thursday’s congressional session.”The constitution, and democracy are under attack.
