STF Relator Publishes PF Report Linking Moraes to Vorcaro and Seeks Plenary Review

Overview

• Relator André Mendonça removed secrecy from a Polícia Federal report that records messages from banker Daniel Vorcaro to a number tied to Minister Alexandre de Moraes and metadata showing a R$131 million Master contract connected to Moraes’s wife’s law firm.
• The Polícia Federal material does not state that Moraes was formally made an investigado or conclude he committed a crime and the agency says it did not carry out investigative diligences specifically against magistrates.
• Procurador‑Geral Paulo Gonet filed a formal request on procedural grounds to nullify Mendonça’s orders and the PF report, arguing the relator exceeded his competence and that any probe of an STF minister must be handled by the Court’s plenary.
• Mendonça says he will submit the PF material to the full STF for public deliberation and the Court president, Edson Fachin, must now decide when and how the plenary will hear the matter.
• The disclosures have escalated political pressure—including renewed impeachment calls—draw intense international coverage, and raise short‑term risks to the Supreme Court’s credibility and to the tone of the presidential campaign next month.