Felisa Miceli, Argentina’s economy minister, resigned on Monday as a judicial investigation intensified over $64,000 found stashed in a bag in her office bathroom.

The ”Toiletgate” scandal, as the Argentine media has dubbed the affair, is a political embarrassment for President Nestor Kirchner and comes just three days before his wife, Cristina Fernandez, a prominent senator, prepares to launch her candidacy for October elections.