Pre-candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, the senator (PL-RJ), who wanted to make a film about his father, had any contact with the former owner of the , when the Sheet revealed that his phone number was in the former banker’s address book.
The column Mônica Bergamo that documents from the CPI (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry) of the (National Institute of Social Security) revealed that the contacts of Flávio, federal deputy Nikolas Ferreira (PL-MG), former president Michel Temer and artists such as presenter Luciano Huck were on Vorcaro’s agenda.
At the time, Flávio stated that he never had contact with the owner of Banco Master. “My phone number isn’t exactly a secret,” he says, suggesting that someone else could have given his contact details to Vorcaro, according to the report.
This Wednesday (13), after the website Intercept Brasil revealed Flávio’s conversations with Vorcaro about the financing of , about the former president (), the PL pre-candidate admitted in a note and video that he met the then banker in December 2024 and that he asked for money for the feature film.
“It is necessary to separate the innocent from the criminals. In our case, what happened was a son, seeking private sponsorship for a private film about his own father’s story. Zero public money”, wrote the senator, in a note.
The senator said he met Vorcaro when the Bolsonaro government had already ended and there were no accusations or public suspicions about the banker.
“Contact is resumed when there is a delay in paying the sponsorship installments necessary to complete the film. I did not offer any advantages in return. I did not promote private meetings outside the agenda. I did not broker business with the government. I did not receive money or any advantage”, said Flávio.
A Sheet He contacted the senator’s office at 6:50 pm this Wednesday (13) to question him about the change in version, but received no response until the publication of this report.
Vorcaro paid R$61 million to finance the film, information revealed by Intercept Brasil and confirmed by Sheet.
As revealed by Intercept, Flávio stated in a message sent on September 8 last year to Vorcaro: “I’m embarrassed to keep demanding you, it’s at a very decisive moment in the film. And there’s a lot left behind, and everyone is tense and I’m worried here about the opposite effect of what we dreamed of for the film, right?”
The messages were sent five days after the Central Bank by BRB (Banco Regional de Brasília). Liquidation would only come in November, together with Vorcaro’s first arrest, which took place on November 17th.
On November 16, according to the Intercept, Flávio sent another message to Vorcaro saying: “Brother, I am and will always be with you, there’s no such thing as half a conversation between us. I just need you to give me some light! Abs!”.
