The rapporteur of the CPI for Organized Crime in the Senate, Alessandro Vieira, filed two requests in which he maintains that there are “founded suspicions” that a contract signed between Banco Master and the Barci de Moraes Sociedade de Advogados law firm is a “direct product” of money laundering.
The requests were presented on Monday (2) and request that lawyer Viviane Barci de Moraes be summoned to testify, in addition to breaking the company’s banking secrecy.
According to the rapporteur, the fee agreement reaches approximately R$129 million at the end of the provision of services, an amount considered incompatible with the scope of the contracted work. In Vieira’s assessment, the discrepancy between price and service would indicate the use of the contract to give the appearance of legality to illicit transfers.
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The requests cite investigations by Operation Hidden Carbon, which investigate the capitalization of Banco Master through fraud and resources linked to drug trafficking.
In one of the documents, the senator states that the R$129 million “would not constitute mere operating income of a legal financial institution”, but rather the result of a money laundering process.
The text also points out that payment to the office would have been treated as a priority by the bank’s founder, Daniel Vorcaro, which, for the CPI, raises additional signs of influence peddling and exploitation of prestige.
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The contract involves the law firm of the wife of STF minister Alexandre de Moraes, which adds political sensitivity to the case. The investigation takes place in parallel with other fronts investigating Banco Master, including suspicions about the origin of resources and the actions of the institution’s executives.
