Moraes Details BC Meetings, Denies Lobbying for Banco Master

Overview

• Moraes says he met BC president Gabriel Galípolo twice in his office, on Aug. 14 and Sept. 30, to discuss Magnitsky sanctions and denies making phone calls, exerting pressure, or having his wife's firm act before the BC on the BRB–Master deal.
• The Central Bank confirms meetings to address Magnitsky effects, but its brief note does not explicitly rule out whether Banco Master was also discussed.
• Reporting highlights gaps and inconsistencies, including the absence of the meeting on Galípolo’s public agenda, rapid edits to Moraes’s notes, and timing questions relative to the sanctions.
• Justice Dias Toffoli ordered an acareação on Dec. 30 in the Master investigation, a step jurists criticize as producing evidence and risking judicial impartiality.
• Political fallout continues, with moves for a CPI and impeachment efforts, legal groups demanding an independent probe, and some Supreme Court ministers privately downplaying the episode.