Washington Travassos de Azevedo is investigated for involvement in a scheme that accessed information from family members of authorities
Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF, ordered the arrest of accountant Washington Travassos de Azevedo on March 13, 2026. He is suspected of involvement in the of family members of Court ministers and other authorities.
Azevedo has been in prison since March 14. Just over a week earlier, on March 5, he had been the target of a search and seizure warrant. It was triggered by the Federal Police. According to , the accountant told the PF that he acted as an intermediary between a person who was interested in obtaining data from the Federal Revenue Service and another who claimed to have access to confidential information.
In a note sent to the press, the STF confirmed the arrest.
The Court said that the accountant was named as one of the “clients in the chain of obtaining tax data protected by functional secrecy”. The information obtained is from the period from January 8, 2024 to January 27, 2026. He also stated that Azevedo accessed data on 1,819 people, including names linked to ministers of the STF, the TCU, deputies, former senators, a former governor, directors of regulatory agencies and businesspeople.
The Attorney General’s Office had spoken out in favor of the arrest.
O Poder360 sought Azevedo’s defense. Lawyer Eric Cwajgenbaum said he will speak out. THE Folha de S.Paulohe declared that he had not yet had access to the decision.
DATA LEAKAGE
Moraes’ decision to order an investigation into whether there was a data leak was for the Poder360 on January 13, 2026. Against the backdrop of a about possible breach of tax secrecy of Court ministers and relatives attributed to the Federal Revenue Service and the (Financial Activities Control Council). It is part of the so-called fake news investigation opened in 2019 and which, to this day, is unfinished and is being processed in secrecy.
A was driven by the disclosure, in reports, of information involving authorities. In Moraes’ case, details were cited about the contract between lawyer Viviane Barci de Moraes’ office and Banco Master, worth R$131.3 million over 3 years. Although there was no explicit confidential data, there is suspicion that financial information may have been obtained through restricted bases.
