Director of Supervision at the Central Bank (BC), Ailton de Aquino, was dismissed
Heard it this Tuesday (30), banker Daniel Vorcaro, owner of (BRB), about the sale of Banco Master and found differences in the testimony of the banker and the former president. Each of the three was heard individually. The hearings of those investigated were determined by Minister Dias Toffoli and will be carried out individually.
After the hearings, the delegate responsible for the case, Janaina Palazzo, called a confrontation between Vorcaro and Paulo Henrique with the aim of checking contradictions. Ailton was dismissed.
. The main objective is to clarify the real truth of the facts, pressuring deponents to support or rectify their versions in front of the opposing party.
Vorcaro and Costa are being investigated by the PF for irregularities in the sale of false loan portfolios from Banco Master to BRB for R$12.2 billion. Aquino, who is not being investigated, is the director who recommended the vote for the bank’s liquidation to the Central Bank’s collegiate board. The Master’s owner was arrested preventively on November 17th, but was released with an electronic ankle bracelet on the 29th of the same month after receiving a habeas corpus. Costa was removed from the presidency of the BRB by court decision.
The testimony began to be taken at around 2pm and was held in the hearing room of a building attached to the Supreme Court. Vorcaro was on the stand for about three hours.
After the round of 16, the delegate responsible for the case will assess whether there are relevant differences between the versions presented. THE investigates negotiations on the sale of the to BRB, a public bank in the Federal District (DF), which tried to buy Master shortly before the Central Bank (BC) declared the institution’s extrajudicial bankruptcy.
Paulo Henrique Costa was removed from the presidency of the institution by court decision. In November, the former president of BRB and were targets of Operation Compliance Zero, which investigates the granting of false credits. Fraud can reach R$17 billion in forged securities.
