Investigators involved in investigating billion-dollar fraud at Banco Master should ask the STF to break the confidentiality of the Maridt fund, linked to the minister’s family members Toffoli Daysfrom the STF (Supreme Federal Court). Federal Police agents want to investigate whether the minister committed crimes of passive corruption. To date, Toffoli is not yet the target of the investigation.
Other steps will also be requested to follow the path of the banker’s money and investigate alleged payments to the Supreme Court judge, as mentioned in conversations seized on Vorcaro’s cell phones and present in the report of around 200 pages delivered to the Supreme President, Edson Fachin.
According to sources heard by CNNthe expectation of PF agents is that the new rapporteur of the case, a minister, will be able to “unlock” the investigations. The experience with Mendonça in reporting the INSS fraud case is considered “positive” and the judge is described as “correct”.
As anticipated by Piauí magazine and confirmed by CNNthe PF sent the investigation files to the STF when it came across signs of crime on the part of the magistrate related to the target of the investigation investigations that were under his responsibility.
The police based the report on article 33 of the Organic Law of the Judiciary, which applies when there is “indication of the commission of a crime by the magistrate”.
The judge has repeatedly denied having committed any illegality. After the PF report, however, he admitted for the first time that he was one of the partners in the Maridt fund.
Maridt had a stake in a fund linked to Vorcaro.
According to a note from the minister’s office, however, everything occurred regularly. The text states that all financial statements of the company and its shareholders “have always been duly approved”.
A CNN Brazil He contacted Minister Dias Toffoli’s office, but has not yet received a response. The space remains open.
