Magno Malta (PL-ES) and Eduardo Girão (Novo-CE) claim that their physical integrity may be threatened
Senators Magno Malta (PL-ES) and Eduardo Girão (Novo-CE) sent this Thursday (5), a request to minister André Mendonçaof the Federal Supreme Court (STF), to transfer Daniel Vorcaro and Fabiano Zettel to a maximum security federal prison.
The parliamentarians’ justification is that their physical integrity may be threatened. Both were arrested as part of Operation Compliance Zero investigations. The banker was arrested again this Wednesday (4)in São Paulo, during a new phase of an investigation that investigates an alleged billion-dollar financial fraud scheme.
A Federal Police triggered the third phase of Operation Compliance Zerowhich investigates the possible commission of crimes such as threats, corruption, money laundering and invasion of computer devices, allegedly committed by a criminal organization.
The request comes after, who had also been arrested, . According to the document, what happened “raises alert regarding the risks that may affect people directly linked to the structure being investigated”.
They argue that the request is not aimed at defending anyone being investigated, but at preserving the integrity of the investigation and the public interest in the complete investigation of the facts.
According to the text of the decision to arrest Vorcaro, signed this Wednesday by the minister, Mourão was like a “helper” to the owner of Banco Master and responsible for collecting confidential information for monitoring people and neutralizing situations considered sensitive to the interests of the investigated group linked to the Banco Master case, the which was informally called “The Gang”.
In this context, Mourão organized and executed orders aimed at identifying, locating, monitoring people and even threatening those who were involved in investigations or critical of the activities of the economic group linked to Banco Master.
Os investigated could be of any scopefrom business competitors, former employees to journalists. Using this methodology, according to the police authority, Mourão even gained undue access to the systems of the Federal Police itself, the Federal Public Ministry and even international organizations, such as the FBI and Interpol.
Master Case
The settlements of the decreed by the in November 2025, and the investment manager Reag, revealed one of the most serious episodes in the Brazilian financial system.
O case involves suspected billion-dollar fraud, use of investment funds to hide losses, rescue attempts via public banks and tensions between the Federal Supreme Court (STF) and the Federal Audit Court (TCU) with the BC and the Federal Police (PF).
“The decree of the special regime in institutions was motivated by the serious liquidity crisis of the Master conglomerate and the significant compromise of its economic and financial situation, as well as by serious violations of the rules that govern the activity of the institutions that are part of the SFN”, informed the BC in a note at the time.
Extrajudicially, Banco Master S/A, Banco Master de Investimento S/A, Banco Letsbank S/A, and Master S/A Corretora de Câmbio, Títulos e Valores Mobiliários were liquidated.
The Banco Master liquidation process was accompanied by Operation Compliance Zerolaunched by the PF to combat the issuance of false credit titles by financial institutions that are part of the National Financial System (SFN).
As a result, on November 17, Master’s owner, Daniel Vorcaro, was arrested. He was later released using an electronic ankle bracelet.
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