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A second minister in Brazil's new government has resigned. The anti-corruption minister in Brazil's interim government has resigned, after a recording suggested he tried to derail an investigation into the state oil company, Petrobras.
Fabiano Silveira was in charge of the ministry tasked with fighting corruption but left after a recording was made public, which seems to show him trying to derail a corruption investigation at 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.
Last week the planning minister stepped aside after a similar recording was released. Mr Silveira says his remarks have been taken out of context.
Both men were appointed when President Dilma Rousseff was suspended. Both men were appointed by interim president, Michel Temer.
She is accused of massaging budget figures ahead of her re-election in 2014, and is due to be tried in the senate in the coming months. Mr 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. She has argued that impeachment proceedings against her are designed to stop the investigation into Petrobras, known as Lava Jato, or Car Wash.
Staff at his ministry had symbolically cleaned the building with broomsticks and demanded his dismissal. In the recorded conversation broadcast on TV, Mr Silveira is heard apparently advising the speaker of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, and an ex-senator, Sergio Machado, on how to avoid investigations by prosecutors.
Dozens of civil servants in the ministry's local offices had offered their resignation in protest. He is also heard appearing to criticise investigators in the Petrobras investigation, which has implicated dozens of senior politicians and has led to the jailing of several top business executives.
In the recorded conversation broadcast on TV, he is heard seeming to advise the speaker of the Senate, Renan Calheiros and an ex-senator, Sergio Machado, on how to avoid investigations by prosecutors.
He is also heard appearing to criticize investigators in the Petrobras investigation, which has implicated dozens of senior politicians and has led to the jailing of several top business executives.
Mr Machado, who is also the former president of Transpetro, a logistics company owned by Petrobras, is being investigated for corruption. As part of a plea bargain with investigators he has recorded a series of conversations with high-profile politicians.Mr Machado, who is also the former president of Transpetro, a logistics company owned by Petrobras, is being investigated for corruption. As part of a plea bargain with investigators he has recorded a series of conversations with high-profile politicians.
The first one was made public last week and led to the stepping aside of a former Planning Minister and close advisor to President Michel Temer, Romero Juca. In his resignation letter, Mr Silveira said he was being targeted by "very unusual speculations".
"There is no opposition, in my words, to the works of the public prosecution's office or the judiciary," he said.
"Those were generic comments and simple opinion, certainly amplified by the climate of political exasperation we have all witnessed."
Prior to his resignation, staff at the ministry symbolically cleaned the building with broomsticks, and dozens of civil servants in the ministry's local offices offered their resignations in protest.
Last week, Romero Juca, a close advisor to Mr Temer and interim planning minister, resigned after recordings of conversations with Mr Machado were made public.