Brazil's interim president Michel Temer lost the third minister of his month-old administration to a swirling scandal when his tourism minister resigned Thursday after being accused of taking bribes.

Presidency sources told AFP that Tourism Minister Henrique Eduardo Alves, a member of Temer's center-right PMDB party, had submitted his resignation after a key witness accused him of accepting 1.5 million reals (around $445,000) diverted from state oil company Petrobras.