STF Suspends Deliberation Over Banco Master Reports After Heated Session

Overview

• A heated Supreme Court session on Tuesday, Sept. 15 produced a 4–3 vote to keep separate the examinations of Alexandre de Moraes and André Mendonça and was suspended after minister Flávio Dino requested a pedido de vista.
• A Police Federal report central to the dispute reportedly contains 52 messages between banker Daniel Vorcaro and minister Alexandre de Moraes and notes a R$130 million contract between Banco Master and the law firm of Moraes’s wife.
• Ministers clashed publicly over who should hold relatoria after president Edson Fachin centralized related procedures and allies of Moraes pushed to reassign or join cases to delay or reshape the review.
• The Polícia Federal is continuing criminal operations tied to the Master investigations, including operation Dinastia do Lago in Amazonas that executed 29 search warrants and ordered public‑servant removals with Moraes’s authorization.
• Political fallout has intensified: deputy Lindbergh Farias filed a request to the PGR seeking André Mendonça’s temporary removal from the TSE, campaigns such as Flávio Bolsonaro’s are incorporating attacks on the PF and the Court, and a Sept. 23 session about Mendonça remains a key procedural pivot.