Morning Star.png ANOTHER Coup Minister Forced Out For Corruption The Morning Star, London, 18 June 2016 Brazilian coup tourism minister Henrique Eduardo Alves quit on Thursday following corruption allegations — the third head to roll in a month. Coup president Michel Temer’s office did not say why Mr Alves had quit, but the minister said: “I don’t want to create awkwardness or any kind of difficulty for the government.” His resignations came a day after the release of damning plea bargain testimony by former state oil firm Petrobras executive Sergio Machado. Mr Machado alleged Mr Temer asked him to pay more than £280,000 in bribes to Mr Alves’s campaign treasury from Petrobras subsidiary Transpetro. Mr Machado also alleged that Mr Temer had solicited a similar sum for his Brazilian Democratic Movement Party 2012 Sao Paulo mayoral campaign. Mr Temer, banned from standing for office for eight years for breaking election law, claimed the accusations were “irresponsible” and “ludicrous.” Another of Mr Temer’s cronies, environment minister Sarney Filho, was named in Mr Machado’s testimony, though at the time of writing he was still in his post. Mr Alves was just the latest name among 20 figures in Mr Temer’s interim government to be implicated in the corruption scandal since the legislative coup against President Dilma Rousseff last month. The first ministerial resignation came just a little over a week after Temer assumed the presidency. Planning minister Romero Juca stepped down after leaked audio recordings suggested he was plotting to obstruct the Petrobras corruption probe. A week later, transparency minister Fabiano Silveira quit after he was heard in the leaked tapes advising a politician investigated in the Petrobras case. From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-f4a8-Brazil-ANOTHER-coup-minister-forc ed-out-for-corruption#.V2UMjPl9601> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-f4a8-Brazil-ANOTHER-coup-minister-force d-out-for-corruption#.V2UMjPl9601 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/002301d1c944%240e68bfc0%242b3a3f40%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
