The minister was once again the target of questions after the column by journalist Malu Gaspar, from the newspaper O Globo, published that he was in a phone call with the president of the , Gabriel Galípolo.
At the time of the contacts mentioned in the report, the BC was analyzing the purchase of Master by the state bank BRB (Banco de Brasília) – in September this year, the monetary authority rejected the operation and, in November, .
Also according to O Globo, the law firm headed by Moraes’ wife, Viviane Barci, has maintained a contract worth R$3.6 million per month and lasting three years since 2024 to defend the Master’s interests.
The minister denies the statements and says he only dealt with Galípolo about the Magnitsky Law, applied by the United States government against him in July this year.
“In all meetings, specific issues were exclusively discussed about the serious consequences of the application of the aforementioned law, in particular the possibility of maintaining bank transactions, current accounts, credit and debit cards”, he wrote in a note.
Remember below some of the crises involving Alexandre de Moraes in .
Fake news inquiry
The minister has commanded the , opened ex officio by minister Dias Toffoli and distributed without a draw to Moraes, since 2019. The investigation completed six years in 2025, suffering criticism for its atypical length and censorship orders.
Censorship of Crusoé Magazine
In April 2019, the minister reported a report published by Revista Crusoé that showed mention of the contractor Marcelo Odebrecht to the then president of the STF, Dias Toffoli. Under pressure from civil society, three days later.
Search and seizure of businesspeople for coup speeches
In August 2022, Moraes responded to a request from the Federal Police and against businesspeople who sent scam messages in a WhatsApp group. The conversations were revealed by Metrópoles, and the Sheet later showed that the search and seizure request.
TSE Command in 2022
The minister commanded the Superior Electoral Court during the 2022 elections, in a turbulent period that was marked by the spread of lies by the Bolsonaro government about electronic voting machines, but also by court measures that were the subject of questioning. On more than one occasion, for example, Moraes ordered Meta and Twitter to remove Bolsonaro profiles and content considered by the minister to be undemocratic.
In August 2024, the Sheet revealed that Moraes with information that would later be used by himself in decisions affecting Bolsonarist politicians.
Swearing at Rome airport
In July 2023, the minister in Italy. According to Moraes’ report, businessman Roberto Mantovani’s family called him a criminal and a kidnapper. Furthermore, Mantovani allegedly slapped Moraes’ son, knocking his glasses to the floor.
The case led to the opening of an investigation and a search and seizure order against the businessman, determined by the then president of the STF, Rosa Weber. In December 2024, the accused filed a letter retracting the episode and Minister Dias Toffoli.
Obscene gesture at Corinthians stadium
In July 2025, Moraes was caught by photographer Alex Silva, from Estado de S.Paulo, with a fan during Corinthians’ match against Palmeiras at the Neo Química Arena. The day before, the United States had placed the minister under sanctions through the Magnitsky Act.
Bolsonaro trial
The fake news and digital militia inquiries – this one opened in 2021, with a similar purpose, and also led by Moraes – led to the process that judged the coup attempt after Jair Bolsonaro’s defeat in the 2022 elections.
In September this year, the First Panel of the STF sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months for attempting a coup d’état, on charges of . It was the first time in the country’s history that a former president was .
