PF Report Links Alexandre de Moraes to Banco Master Founder

Overview

• A 218-page Polícia Federal analysis of Daniel Vorcaro’s seized cellphone, made public after STF minister André Mendonça lifted secrecy, shows messages, call logs and metadata that tie Vorcaro to a contact identified as Alexandre de Moraes and to edits of a roughly R$130–131 million contract for the law firm of Moraes’s wife.
• The PF report stresses its work was a 72-hour technical review that did not carry out investigative acts against magistrates and did not conclude Moraes committed a crime, noting limits from ‘view-once’ WhatsApp messages and constrained analysis time.
• Prosecutor‑General Paulo Gonet and the PGR have asked the court to archive Vorcaro’s recent deposition and asked the Supreme Court to annul or limit Mendonça’s handling of the probe on procedural grounds, arguing plenary authorization is required to investigate a sitting minister.
• Political fallout has been immediate: presidential and senatorial candidates seized the disclosures to demand Moraes’s removal or impeachment, dozens of impeachment petitions were filed in Congress, and campaigns have shifted messaging to judicial reform or attacks tying the minister to presidential allies.
• The next step is a plenary decision at the Supreme Court to settle the dispute over authority and admissibility of the PF material, a ruling that will determine whether the evidentiary leads can be pursued and how the episode reshapes public trust in Brazil’s judiciary ahead of the election.