Overview
- Federal police detained Vorcaro in São Paulo and carried out 15 searches in São Paulo and Minas Gerais in the latest stage of Operation Compliance Zero.
- The decision includes three additional preventive arrests, suspensions affecting former Central Bank officials Paulo Sérgio Neves de Souza and Belline Santana, and asset blocks of up to R$22 billion.
- Case records cite messages in which Vorcaro directed a group called “A Turma” to monitor adversaries and to plan a violent attack on a journalist, while seeking data from restricted PF, MPF, FBI and Interpol systems.
- Targets named by investigators include Fabiano Zettel, Luiz Phillipi Mourão (“Sicário”) and retired federal police officer Marilson Roseno da Silva, with alleged crimes spanning financial-system offenses, corruption, money laundering and obstruction of justice.
- The PGR said it saw no imminent danger and requested more time, Vorcaro’s defense denies the accusations and claims cooperation, and authorities highlight potential losses with FGC reimbursements projected above R$50 billion.