Lawyers for the owner of Banco Master claim that they did not have prior access to the elements that supported the sentence drawn by minister André Mendonça
Lawyers for Daniel Vorcaro, owner of Banco Master, asked the Federal Supreme Court (STF), this Thursday (5), to order the Federal Police (PF) to presentation of information which supported the execution on Wednesday (4) against the banker, in the third phase of Operation Compliance Zero.
Vorcaro’s defense claimed not have prior access to the elements what supported the request for arrest and asked information about aspects extracted from the sentence by Minister André Mendonça, of the STF, who ordered the arrest of the banker and others being investigated for “the possible commission of crimes of threat, corruption, money laundering and invasion of computer devices, carried out by a criminal organization” ().
In a note, signed by lawyer Edson Gushiken, the defense details that it requested information about the dates of the messages attributed to Daniel Vorcaro, mentioned in the arrest request. The lawyers also asked investigators to provide elements that prove the existence of the supposed messaging group called “The Gang”, as well as whether Vorcaro was part of it.
Lawyers also asked for more details about the dates of the alleged systems intrusions of public bodies and content removals on digital platforms; the document identification, account number e evidence that would support the blocking claim of R$ 2.2 billion in an alleged account attributed to the businessman’s father and those of the documents that would prove supposed payments that, according to the PF, served to maintain a structure focused on surveillance and intimidation of people who went against Vorcaro’s financial interests.
According to the PF, the person responsible for making the aforementioned payments was Fabiano Zettel, the banker’s brother-in-law and the group’s informal accountant, who was also arrested on Wednesday. According to investigations, one of the beneficiaries of the payments would be Luiz Phillipi Machado de Moraes Mourão, identified on Vorcaro’s cell phone as Felipe Mourão and nicknamed Sicário.
In Mendonça’s sentence, Mourão is described as “responsible for carrying out activities aimed at obtaining confidential information, monitoring people and neutralizing situations considered sensitive to the interests of the group being investigated.” According to the investigations, Sicário received monthly payments of R$1 million.
Mourão was taken to the PF Superintendency prison in Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, where, according to the corporation, he attempted self-extermination by hanging himself with a shirt that he tied to the railing. The PF reported that he was revived by the police officers responsible for his custody, and subsequently received medical attention from the Mobile Emergency Care Service (Samu), which sent him to a hospital in the capital of Minas Gerais.
Opening of inquiry
The Federal Police opened an investigation, this Thursday, into investigate death from “Sicário”.
“Sicário” was one of the targets of the third phase of Operation Compliance Zerowhat a rush alleged fraud involving Banco Master. In addition to being suspected of corrupt two Central Bank serversit is investigated as part of the group that improperly accessed confidential systems of the PF, the Federal Public Ministry and the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol, its acronym in English).
Luiz Phillipi Mourão would be the scheme operational coordinator.
*With information from Agência Brasil
