Decision authorizes further investigations to be carried out, including the hearing of investigated executives and Central Bank directors
The minister of determined, this Monday (15), the resumption of investigations into an alleged financial fraud scheme involving Banco Master. The decision authorizes further investigations to be carried out, including the hearing of investigated executives and Central Bank directors.
In the order, Toffoli also allowed the delegate responsible for the case to request measures such as the breach of fiscal and telematic confidentiality of those being investigated, as long as they are duly justified. The hearings may take place in person or via videoconference, in STF hearing rooms, with recording and monitoring by assistant magistrates from the minister’s office.
The investigation investigates the alleged issuance of around R$12 billion in fictitious credits and was paralyzed after Banco Master’s defense requested, a request accepted by Toffoli, that all decisions from the first instance be submitted to the STF. Before that, judge Solange Salgado da Silva, of the Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region (TRF-1), had suspended the preventive detention of the bank’s president, Daniel Vorcaro, appointed as one of the main organizers of the scheme.
In the decision, the judge considered that alternative precautionary measures would be sufficient at the moment, such as the use of an electronic ankle bracelet and the prohibition of contact between those investigated. According to her, these measures meet the need to preserve economic order, guarantee the progress of criminal prosecution and reduce the risk of escape or repeat crimes.
In addition to Vorcaro, the decision benefited executives Augusto Ferreira Lima, Luiz Antônio Bull, Alberto Felix de Oliveira Neto and Ângelo Antônio Ribeiro da Silva. They had their passports seized and were prohibited from leaving the cities where they live without judicial authorization.
*With information from Estadão Conteúdo
