The president (PT) said this Wednesday (8) that the fraud and the involvement of the minister’s wife, of the (Supreme Federal Court), in the bank’s defense harm the image of the court.
“Comrade Alexandre de Moraes knows that it damages the image. You can have something that is legal, but, in the circumstances that happen, people treat it as an immoral thing. And in a political year in which people will give a lot of attention to this”, he stated in an interview with ICL Notícias. “I’ll tell you what I told him: you built a historical biography with the January 8th trial. Don’t allow this case of [Daniel] Vorcaro throw away his biography”, added Lula.
Viviane Barci de Moraes, the minister’s wife, is one of the partners at the Barci de Moraes office, which ran between February 2024 and November 2025, the month in which the bank was liquidated.
“I said: say that your wife is a lawyer, I just promise that here in the Supreme Court I will be prevented from voting, anything, anything that gives society a firmness. Which he has”, declared Lula.
As shown by the Sheetdata from the Federal Revenue showed that Master withheld at source the payment made to Barci de Moraes in each of the years — which suggests the payment of R$37.6 million net to the office per year.
Lula also said that the theme should be used by the right in the campaign to run for President of the Republic this year.
When the contract between Banco Master and Barci de Moraes became public, the bank, which also has two of the couple’s children among its partners, remained silent. The first manifestation.
