Overview
- Vorcaro's lawyers formally asked STF president Edson Fachin to either return the Master case to former rapporteur André Mendonça or to authorize Mendonça to rule on the request to revoke preventive detention.
- The defense says the files were removed from Mendonça's relatorship and sent to the presidency on September 12 and that Fachin has not assumed the case or held a draw to name a new relator, leaving the matter unassigned.
- A petition asking for Vorcaro's release has been pending before the court since September 18 and remains unexamined while urgent freedom requests accumulate at the presidency, the lawyers say.
- Vorcaro's team argues he has been held for more than eight months without indictment or a formal criminal action and cites other suspects in related probes who have already regained liberty as evidence the custody is unjustified.
- The dispute highlights how internal tensions at the Supreme Federal Court have affected case management and could prompt broader challenges over prolonged preventive detention and the court's procedure for reassigning cases; similar requests for Maurício Camisotti point to a pattern of stalled release petitions.