Anti-corruption protesters in Brazil have been given yet more ammunition in their drive to clean up public life.<br /><br /> The government minister appointed only last month to root out corruption has resigned after being caught apparently advising politicians on how to avoid corruption investigations.<br /><br /> Fabiano Silveira is the second minister from Michel Temer’s interim administration to quit in a week, after leaked recordings suggested he tried to derail a widespread corruption inquiry.<br /><br /> He claims the comments were taken out of context.<br /><br /> In the taped conversation broadcast on TV, he is heard apparently advising the Senate speaker on how to defend himself from the probe into the state oil company Petrobras – as well as criticising prosecutors.<br /><br /> The recording was made by an ex-senator who is also under investigation and who has entered a plea bargain.<br /><br /> Brazil’s suspended president Dilma Rousseff has argued that the impeachment proceedings against her were designed to stop the Petrobras prob
