Dilma Rousseff rival under fire over plot recording

A minister in Brazil’s new government has taken a leave of absence after he was secretly recorded apparently plotting to oust the former president in a bid to stall a huge corruption probe.

Planning minister Romero Juca is under investigation in the multibillion-pound kickback scheme at state oil company Petrobras.

Even some allies of acting president Michel Temer called for the firing or resignation of Juca, also a senator, who seems in the recording to be plotting how to remove Dilma Rousseff.