Minister of the STF speaks of disrespect for legislation; ex-girlfriend of Master’s founder says she intends to go to court
Minister Gilmar Mendes, of the STF (Supreme Federal Court), said that the exposure of conversations between founder of Banco Master, and (then girlfriend of the businessman) is a “serious violation of the right to privacy” and a “demonstration of institutional barbarity that transgresses all limits imposed by laws and the Constitution”.
The statement was given this Monday (March 9, 2026) in a publication on .
For Gilmar, “seems even more serious” that the dialogues were published in the week in which International Women’s Day is celebrated. “By allowing the publication of intimate dialogues between a couple, the State and its agents not only fail in their duty of care, but also disrespect the legislation, which categorically imposes the destruction of excerpts that are of no interest in criminal prosecution.”wrote the dean.
The PF (Federal Police) sent the INSS (Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry) a folder with 1.08 GB of data from the investigation carried out on Vorcaro’s cell phones. THE Poder360 had access to the material. Of the total, 221 banker files —which ended up leaked— total 329.3 MB. There are images, emails, contacts and documents stored on the devices. Read more about the archives .
The collection analyzed by the Poder360 shows that the extraction of Vorcaro’s cell phone goes beyond isolated messages. The content includes diary records, emails, business files and images that help to reconstruct the banker’s network of relationships.
One of the central files deals with a text document with 1,687 pages of messages exchanged between the founder of Master and his ex-girlfriend.
The model stated that due to the exchanged between the two. In a note signed by his lawyer, Graeff described the exhibition as “serious violence”, “manifestly illegal and impressively useless”.
According to the model, she and Vorcaro are not in a relationship “months ago” and she “has never been involved in any type of criminal wrongdoing”. Graeff is not the target of Operation Compliance Zero, which culminated in Vorcaro’s new arrest on March 4.
According to the lawyer, the disclosure “fragmented“from messages”proves to be not only harmless to any criminal procedure, but subversive of moral values and constitutional guarantees that ensure the inviolability of intimacy”
DISCUSSION AT THE SUPREME
Minister André Mendonça ordered on Friday (March 6, 2026) the opening of an investigation to investigate the leak of information from the Master’s founder’s cell phone.
In the decision, the minister stated that sharing the breach of confidentiality does not authorize the leaking of information by members of the CPI. “Quite the contrary, it gives the authority that received the restricted access information responsibility for maintaining secrecy. This is because, clearly, any breach of secrecy does not make the accessed information public”, declared. Read the (PDF – 179 KB).
Behind the scenes, the leak of this information has led some ministers to consider that it is necessary to establish greater control over the data that may be requested by the commissions, under the justification of the right to privacy and secrecy. As a result, the CPIs should present more specific requests for breach of confidentiality, with greater detail on what and who will be investigated, excluding possible intimate information.
WHAT THE PF SAYS
The PF stated on Friday (6th March) that no report on investigations related to Master’s fraud contained data on the private lives of those investigated.
The statement says that the general director of the PF instructed the team responsible for Master’s investigations to make a representation to investigate the undue disclosure of confidential information.
The note mentions that the materials seized in the investigation were released only for the defense of those investigated and for the congressmen of the CPMI (Mixed Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry) of the INSS, who received the data relating to the object of the commission by determination of the current rapporteur of the process.
“No report, judicial police information or representation presented by the Federal Police, within the scope of Operation Compliance Zero, contained data that was not relevant to the investigation. Therefore, information related to the intimacy or private life of those investigated was not included”he stated. Read the of the note.
The corporation declared that it does not have the authority to edit conversations, select or manipulate data extracted from seized equipment. According to the note, the evidence has been seized with the PF since November and with the PGR (Attorney General’s Office) since January.
“Subsequently, by decision of the then Minister Rapporteur of the process, the defense of those investigated began to have access to the entirety of this information. Likewise, the INSS CPMI received data relating to the object of the commission as determined by the current rapporteur of the process”, he declared.
TOFFOLI SAYS THE MATERIAL DID NOT REACH THE STF
Minister Dias Toffoli declared on Friday (6th March) that, while he was reporting on the investigations into Master, he did not have access to the information found on the institution’s founder’s cell phone. According to the minister, he authorized the analysis of the seized cell phones, computers and hard drives, but stated that “nothing was forwarded to the STFLet’s go (PDF – 225 kB) and notes.
In a note, the cabinet recapped the decisions taken during the period in which Toffoli was in charge of the investigation, from November 28, 2025 to February 12, 2026. The minister said that his last act in charge of the case was to order the PF to send the material to the Supreme Court:
“I granted all the measures requested by the Federal Police and the Attorney General’s Office. The investigations continued to be carried out normally and regularly, without prejudice to the investigation of the facts, and no request for nullity was granted”, declared.
Toffoli will return to speak out in the Master case from March 13, when Vorcaro’s preventive detention order will be analyzed by the 2nd Panel of the STF. Minister André Mendonça, who authorized the 3rd phase of the Compliance Zero operation, sent the decision to a collegiate referendum.
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