Rio de Janeiro, Dec 5 (ANI): Brazilian Labour Minister Carlos Lupi has resigned over mounting corruption allegations.
He is the seventh minister to resign since President Dilma Rousseff took office in January. Six had departed earlier amid scandals over alleged corruption, The BBC reports.
Lupi said in a statement that he had been subject to personal and political persecution by the media, adding that he had a clear conscience and would prove his innocence.
Lupi is being investigated after a Brazilian news magazine Veja reported in November that Lupi and some of his aides had allegedly demanded kickbacks from charities and non-governmental organisations in exchange for funding from the ministry.
The Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper also reported that he was being investigated for allegedly receiving a salary as a federal congressional employee, while at the same time serving in, and receiving a salary from, the state legislature of Rio de Janeiro.
Receiving two government salaries is illegal under Brazilian law. (ANI)
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