The minister ordered, last Thursday (19), to carry out a search and seizure and install an electronic ankle bracelet on a security guard who worked in Rio de Janeiro.
The order was taken two days after the operation against four members of the (Federal Supreme Court) and their relatives.
The determination regarding the security guard, according to people with knowledge of the investigation, was made in the investigation related to these suspected leaks. His name has not been released nor what actions of his are under investigation.
In the operation on the 17th against the four suspects, one of the targets was Luiz Antônio Martins Nunes, an employee of Serpro (state data processing company) who was assigned to the IRS in Rio.
There were indications that he irregularly accessed the tax authorities’ systems and passed on confidential data from authorities and family members to third parties. The report did not locate Nunes’ defense.
The other targets were technicians Luciano Pery Santos Nascimento, Ruth Machado dos Santos and auditor Ricardo Mansano de Moraes.
A note from the STF at the time stated that there was “a block of accesses whose analysis, by the responsible areas, did not identify a functional justification”.
Ruth Machado dos Santos, who is an administrative agent, is suspected of being the wife of the STF minister. She stated in a statement to the Federal Police that she was in person at the time the information was accessed.
Mansano belongs to a former stepdaughter of the minister, daughter of lawyer Guiomar Feitosa. He was in a position as head of Tax Credit and Credit Law Management, in Presidente Prudente (SP), and was removed from the post.
According to people monitoring the investigations, he accessed data from at least two years of Gilmar’s ex-stepdaughter, from 2008 and 2024.
His defense has said that he is a “professional with an unblemished reputation who, over years of work with the Brazilian Federal Revenue Service, has never responded to any functional absence”.
He also said that the facts “will be duly clarified and the truth will prevail” and that he did not have full access to the accusations and investigative elements.
The tracking of possible breaches of confidentiality occurs in the context of the institutional crisis between the Powers and public bodies caused by the breach and liquidation of .
The minister’s family came into focus in the news after the newspaper O Globo revealed that Banco Master was Moraes’ wife’s law firm for 36 months, from the beginning of 2024, and provided for monthly payments of R$3.6 million.
Revelations from the investigation into the financial scandal at Daniel Vorcaro’s bank generated distrust and suspicions of leaks of information protected by banking and tax secrecy.
Moraes’ request to investigate possible breaches of confidentiality was made as part of the fake news inquiry, opened in 2019, and which investigated attacks by Bolsonarists on members of the Supreme Court.
