Social safety minister newest to give up in main pensions fraud scandal
Brazil’s Social Safety Minister, Carlos Lupi, has resigned 9 days after police unveiled a significant corruption scandal which defrauded pensioners of $1.1bn (£829m). Federal police allege that over the previous decade, the Nationwide Social Safety Institute (INSS) made unauthorised deductions from funds made to thousands and thousands of pensioners. The cash was allegedly paid to…