Alexandre de Moraes’ lawyer and wife’s office details services provided to the bank from February 2024 to November 2025 and says he did not work at the STF
The Barci de Moraes Sociedade de Advogados office released, this Monday (March 9, 2026), a note with details about the services provided to . The document lists 94 work meetings, 36 legal opinions and says that the office did not act before the (Federal Supreme Court) in bank cases.
According to the note, the team was made up of 15 lawyers and reinforced by 3 outsourced offices under the coordination of Viviane Barci de Moraes, wife of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF. Of the 94 meetings held, 79 were in person at the bank’s headquarters, lasting an average of 3 hours each. Another 13 were carried out with the presidency of the institution: two in person and 11 via videoconference. Read (PDF – 149 kB).
The text says that the 36 opinions issued covered topics such as social security, labor, contractual, regulatory, compliance, data protection and credit law. The work also included strategic analysis of investigations and processes in the criminal and administrative areas involving the bank and its directors, implementation of a code of ethics and conduct and governance and regulatory compliance actions.
in April 2025, the same time that the purchase of the institution by BRB (Banco de Brasília) was underway. The contract between the lawyer and the Master was never disclosed in full.
Partial data was published by journalist Malu Gaspar on December 9. According to the journalist, the lawyer’s fees would be R$3,646,529.77 per month, for 36 months. The combined total is R$ 131,275,071.72 at the end of the service provision. Viviane and Master never disputed the information.
Information obtained by the PF on the cell phone of Daniel Vorcaro, owner of Banco Master, – her number is saved as “Vivi Moraes”. The PF also recovered a text sent by Vorcaro on November 17, 2025, at 5:26 pm – hours before he was arrested for the first time in Operation Compliance Zero –, with the question: “Any news? Did you manage to get news or block it?”. The PF believes that Alexandre de Moraes was the recipient.
In an official note released on Friday (March 6, 2026) by the STF Communication Secretariat, the minister denied being the recipient and argued that the files were organized in digital folders along with contact files for other people, including senator Irajá Abreu (PSD-TO) and Viviane Barci herself. On Saturday (7 March 2026), Viviane also released a statement denying having received the messages.
Here is the full note:
“The Barci de Moraes Sociedade de Advogados office clarifies that it was hired, in the period between February 2024 and November 2025, by the client Banco Master, for which it carried out extensive consultancy and legal work, through a team made up of 15 (fifteen) lawyers. To carry out the services, it also hired three other specialized consultancy firms, which were under its coordination.
The two legal teams responsible for legal consultancy and action, between the beginning of the contract, in 2024, and the extrajudicial liquidation of the bank, in November 2025, with the consequent contractual termination, carried out:
94 (ninety-four) work meetings, including:
I.1) 79 (seventy-nine) face-to-face meetings at Banco Master’s headquarters, all lasting approximately 3 (three) hours, between the bank, through its Compliance and Corporate superintendencies and Compliance management, and the legal team from the Barci de Moraes Sociedade de Advogados office, to analyze documents, discuss legal problems and develop the object of the contract;
I.2) 13 (thirteen) meetings with the president of the institution and the legal team, 2 (two) in person at the office headquarters and 11 by videoconference, lasting approximately 2 (two) hours;
I.3) 2 (two) video conference meetings between Banco Master’s legal team and the Barci de Moraes legal team, lasting approximately 2 (two) hours.
The work of one of the legal teams, together with the hired consultants, included the preparation of Legal Opinions in cases requested by the Compliance Department; Review of the Funding Policy for the Social Security Regime – RPPS; Review of the Compliance & PLDFT Program to obtain the Pro-Ética Seal, implying: Review of the Structure of the Compliance Department; Review of the Code of Ethics and Conduct; Preparation of the necessary Policies – Relationship policy with Public Authorities; Tenders and contracts policy; Contact policy with competitors; Conflict of interest policy; Related Party Policy, among others; Review of other policies and procedures in the Compliance area to adapt them to what is required by the General Inspectorate of the Union – CGU.
36 (thirty-six) legal opinions and opinions were produced on a wide range of topics, such as social security, contractual, business, labor, regulatory, compliance, data protection and credit aspects, among others.
Preparation and presentation of processes for ethics and governance certification, with mapping of activities, collection of base documentation, analysis of opportunities, preparation and review and training of the target audience on new policies, based on the review of the Code of Ethics and Conduct, integrity policies, structuring of the compliance department and support for senior management.
Preparation and review of the RPPS Management and Fundraising Manual, Public Power Relationship Policy, Training, Qualification and Continuing Certification Policy, PLDFT Policy, Operational Risk Policy, Administrator Succession Policy, Related Party Transaction Policy, Reporting and Investigation Channel Policy, BNDU Management Policy, Mergers and Acquisitions Policy, Consequence Management Policy, Investment Policy personnel, Social, Environmental and Climate Responsibility Policy, Suitability Policy, Communication Policy, Occupational Health and Safety Policy, Partner Hiring Manual, Know Your Partner Procedures Manual – KYP, Know Your Outsourced Service Provider Procedures Manual.
The legal team helped to implement the bank’s New Code of Ethics and Conduct, with in-person presentation to Superintendencies, and provided consultancy on financial market topics, such as the AMBIMA questionnaire, review of Due Diligence forms; the preparation of regulatory reporting models on remuneration; completing the Pacto Brasil self-assessment (September 25th and October 9th, 2025), among others.
Another team from the Barci de Moraes office, together with the consultants, worked mainly in the criminal and administrative area, in the consultative and strategic analysis of police investigations, criminal actions, civil investigations, public civil actions and actions of interest or that could produce repercussions on the performance of Banco Master and its directors, several of them confidential, as well as in specific contentious action in criminal action, which was filed on 10/17/2024, and specific federal police investigation, which was authorized in 8/4/2024.
The office also clarifies that it has never led any case for Banco Master within the scope of the STF (Supreme Federal Court).
Barci de Moraes Sociedade de Advogados has a history of almost two decades providing highly qualified services to large clients, combining legal vision and a strategic approach.”
