DHAKA: The anti-corruption minister in Brazil's interim government has resigned, after a recording suggested that he tried to wreck an investigation into the state oil company.

Fabiano Silveira is the second interim minister to step down, a week after the planning minister resigned following the release of a similar recording, BBC reports on Tuesday (May 31).

Silveira said that his remarks have been taken out of context.
Both men were appointed by interim president, Michel Temer.

Temer replaced Dilma Rousseff as president in 12 May, after she was suspended to face a Senate impeachment trial over allegations of massaging the budget ahead of her re-election in 2014.

She has argued that impeachment proceedings against her are designed to stop the investigation into Petrobras, known as Lava Jato, or Car Wash.

BDST: 1518 HRS, May 31, 2016
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