STF Relator Lifts Secrecy on Federal Police Findings Linking Moraes to Banker Vorcaro

Overview

• On Tuesday, Sept. 1, Mendonça removed secrecy from parts of the Polícia Federal file that report messages and document metadata tying banker Daniel Vorcaro to senior officials and forwarded the material to the Procuradoria‑Geral da República.
• Federal Police analysts say they recovered device notes, WhatsApp traces and Office 365 metadata indicating a document tied to a R$131 million contract between Banco Master and the law firm of Viviane Barci was edited from an account labeled with Alexandre de Moraes’s name.
• Alexandre de Moraes has denied receiving messages from Vorcaro and rejected suggestions that he intervened on the banker’s behalf.
• The disclosures provoked an immediate political backlash with multiple parliamentarians and presidential candidates demanding explanations, announcing new impeachment filings and, in some cases, calling for resignation or criminal measures.
• Next steps are a PGR review of the forwarded material and a plenary session at the STF in a public, in‑person hearing set by the court president, while investigators continue to probe whether Vorcaro operated a wider influence network and to identify other participants.