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STF's Mendonça Orders Daniel Vorcaro's Preventive Arrest in Third Phase of Banco Master Probe

The minister overruled the prosecutor's office after PF alleged illicit system access, intimidation, continuing risk to the investigation.

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.