Presidency candidate criticized the Supreme Court ministers and said he will put an end to the “party of these untouchables”
The pre-candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, (Novo), from “scandal” the decision this Thursday (26.mar.2026) of the Federal Supreme Court that overturned the preliminary decision of minister André Mendonça that ordered the Senate the INSS CPMI
The former governor of Minas Gerais referred to the ministers as “the untouchables”, he questioned how long they will work against Brazil. Zema said he will “end like a farra” of ministers of the Federal Supreme Court.
How long will Brazil endure this UNTOUCHABLES FARRA??
— Romeu Zema (@RomeuZema)
The majority of ministers understood that the prerogative to extend the INSS CPMI is exclusive to the president of the National Congress, senator (União Brasil-AP).
They voted to overturn the injunction:
- Flávio Dino;
- Cristiano Zanin;
- Alexandre de Moraes;
- Nunes Marques;
- Carmen Lúcia;
- Toffoli Days;
- Gilmar Mendes
- Edson Fachin.
They voted to maintain the injunction:
- André Mendonça;
- Luiz Fux.
INSS CPMI
The majority position represented a defeat for minister André Mendonça, rapporteur of the INSS frauds in the Supreme Court and also of the Banco Master case.
On Monday (23rd March), minister André Mendonça hosted a and gave Alcolumbre a deadline of 48 hours to analyze the request to extend the work. The minister understood that the president of Congress had failed to analyze the request from opposition congressmen. Read the of the decision (PDF – 260 kB).
The internal regulations of the STF establish that writs of mandamus against acts of the president of the National Congress must be analyzed by the plenary.
Behind the scenes, the minority position argued that not extending the CPMI would bring yet another setback to the public image of the Supreme Court, which is being criticized for the possible proximity of court ministers to the founder of Banco Master, Daniel Vorcaro. The commission on March 19, that the STF informed “within 2 business days” what were “users from the last 5 years” from the cell phone number identified as the recipient of the ex-banker’s messages.
O Poder360 knows which number is checked and verified that this cell phone was used by Minister Alexandre de Moraes for several years, including in conversations with journalists during the period in which the founder of Banco Master was arrested.
In response, the Presidency of the STF of the request and stated that “Depending on the object sought by this Committee, the matter may not fall within the scope of the General Directorate’s responsibilities.”.
CPMI FINDINGS
CPMI investigates fraud in loans granted to INSS retirees and pensioners. The collegiate closes its activities on March 28th.
With the beginning of the investigations, congressmen focused on the relations of businessman Antônio Carlos Camilo Antunes, the INSS’s Careca, with associations that carried out irregular association discounts and with members of the Social Security leadership.
One of the commission’s targets is Fábio Luís Lula da Silva, known as Lulinha, who had requests to break tax secrecy. Opposition congressmen tried to look for evidence of Lulinha’s relationship with Careca from the INSS.
According to the president of CPMI, Carlos Viana, Minister Flávio Dino’s decision, which suspended Lulinha’s breach of confidentiality, prevented the data from being analyzed in time by congressmen.
Dino stated that, although Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry and CPMIs have the power to determine the breach of confidentiality, when exercising this attribution, they assume a role similar to that of a judge. Therefore, they must observe the same duties as a magistrate, which requires technical justification for each person investigated and voting on a case-by-case basis.
BREAK OF CONFIDENTIALITY
The commission a folder of 1,08 GB with information from the investigation carried out on the cell phones of the founder of Banco Master, Daniel Vorcaro. THE Poder360 had access to the material. Of the total, 221 files of the banker —which ended up being leaked— amount to 329,3 MB. The data includes images, emails, contacts and documents stored on the devices.
The collection analyzed by the Poder360 shows that the extraction of Vorcaro’s cell phone goes beyond isolated messages. The content includes diary records, emails, business files and images that help to reconstruct the banker’s network of relationships. Read the reports based on Vorcaro’s files obtained by the digital newspaper:
LEAKS INQUIRY
Mendonça ordered, on March 6, the opening of an investigation to investigate the leak of information from Vorcaro’s cell phone.
In the decision, the minister highlighted that sharing the breach of confidentiality does not authorize the leaking of information by members of the CPI. “Quite the contrary, it entails, on the part of the authority that received the restricted access information, responsibility for maintaining secrecy. This is because, clearly, any breach of confidentiality does not make the information accessed public.“, declared the minister. Read the (PDF – 179 KB).
The PF stated that no report on investigations related to fraud in the contained data on the private lives of those investigated. Minister Dias Toffoli, who reported the case to the Supreme Court until February 12, declared that he did not have access to the information found on the cell phone of the institution’s founder, Daniel Vorcaro. According to the minister, he authorized the analysis of the seized cell phones, computers and hard drives, but stated that “nothing was forwarded to the STFLet’s go (PDF – 225 kB) and notes.
Since the leaks, Mendonça has limited Congress’s access to private data of those being investigated that are unrelated to the investigations. The ministeron March 16, that the Federal Police exclude Vorcaro’s private data from the breach of confidentiality information forwarded to the INSS CPMI. Viana stated that the and respect.
