The banker’s father, Henrique Vorcaro, donated R$1 million to the EM state directory in 2022, show data from the Superior Electoral Court () seen by BBC News Brasil.
Businessman, this Thursday (14) during the sixth phase of Operation Compliance Zero, triggered by .
The new stage of the investigation was authorized by the minister of and includes seven preventive arrest warrants and 17 search and seizure warrants in , and Minas Gerais.
he was the candidate for re-election to the Government of Minas at the time of the donation. The reporter tried to contact the party, but has not been able to get back to us so far. The space remains open.
Zema, through his communications advisor, said that the money was donated to the party, not to him, and that “not a single cent went into” his campaign.
He also said that the donation to the party was in 2022, “when there was not even any suspicion against Vorcaro. The PF only started investigations into it in 2024.”
He reinforced that the donation to the party was “perfectly legal and transparent” and that it is registered with .
Friction between Flávio Bolsonaro and Zema
Daniel Vorcaro has been in preventive detention since March and is negotiating an agreement with the PF and the Attorney General’s Office ().
In a recent development of the case, attributes to the senator (-RJ) came to light in which he collects payments promised by Vorcaro to finance the film “Dark Horse”, a production about the trajectory of the former president (PL).
According to a report by , Flávio had negotiated a total investment of US$24 million —around R$134 million at the time—for the film. The senator previously stated that .
He was tipped to be a candidate for vice-president on a ticket with Flávio, in a video published on social media in the early evening of May 13th.
“Flávio Bolsonaro, hearing you demanding money from Vorcaro is unforgivable. It’s a slap in the face to good Brazilians. There’s no point in criticizing the practices of and of doing the same thing. You need to have credibility to change Brazil,” he said.
Who is Henrique Vorcaro
According to the PF, those being investigated are suspected of crimes such as money laundering, criminal organization, invasion of computer devices and violation of functional secrecy. The arrest was authorized by the Supreme Court.
Publicly discreet, Henrique is a businessman in the infrastructure and heavy construction sector in Minas Gerais and founder of Grupo Multipar, a conglomerate that operates in areas such as engineering, energy, agribusiness and the real estate market.
According to data compiled by BBC News Brasil on the Cruzagrafos platform, Henrique Vorcaro appears as a partner or administrator of companies whose combined share capital approaches R$500 million.
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