The pre-candidate for the Presidency of the Republic and senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) stated this Thursday (14), in an interview with GloboNews, that he sought “investors” when asking for money from the former president of Banco Master, Daniel Vorcaro. According to the parliamentarian, the biographical film about former president Jair Bolsonaro, Dark Horseis a cultural project financed with private resources.
“My participation in this is to look for investors to launch a private film, with private resources, in honor of President Jair”, said Flávio. “A son asking, looking for investors so that they can invest in this cultural project and hope to receive some return due to the profit that this cultural enterprise makes.”
The senator stated that the resources contributed to the fund were destined for Eduardo Bolsonaro’s lawyer, Paulo Calixto, whom he described as someone the family trusted and responsible for leading the process of green card of the former federal deputy licensed in the United States. According to Flávio, the professional has extensive experience in the area and the structure was set up according to legal and bureaucratic requirements, within the context of making the film viable.
“Any private resources that were invested in this fund went entirely towards the production of the film”, continued Flávio. “And if it was a resource for the law firm — which I don’t know if it was, I don’t know the details — this lawyer is the manager of this fund and is a person Eduardo Bolsonaro trusts, because he carried out this entire procedure.”
He added that the fund is supervised by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the capital market regulatory body in the United States, equivalent to the Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) in Brazil. According to the senator, the structure reports regularly to the American authority and, if there were any irregularities, the managers would have already been formally notified.
“Confidentiality clause”
During the interview, Flávio Bolsonaro stated that he previously denied having had contact with banker Daniel Vorcaro due to a “confidentiality clause” provided for in the film’s investment contract. Dark Horsebiopic about former president Jair Bolsonaro.
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“The only connection I have with this gentleman, Daniel Vorcaro, is this film”, said Flávio. According to the senator, he had no compensation to offer the businessman and the contribution was made exclusively in the context of a private investment in audiovisual production. “This generates exposure for investors,” he said.
Flávio reported that he was introduced to Vorcaro by businessman Thiago Miranda exclusively to deal with the financing of the film and said that, at the time, the banker was a well-connected figure in Brasília, frequenting Judiciary environments and prestigious circles, without there being any public information that would raise suspicions about his actions, in his view. According to the parliamentarian, it would be unreasonable to demand that he know facts that, according to his version, were not yet public knowledge.
According to the senator, Vorcaro was one of more than ten investors who contributed resources to the project, all through formal contracts with the expectation of financial return. Flávio said that, after the agreement was formalized, payments began to be made according to the scheduled schedule, until the installments were no longer paid, which led to charges.
“We talked to him, he agreed on the film, it was formalized. I thought everything was fine. The installments were being paid as established in this contract, and there comes a time when he starts to stop paying these installments. And I charged him”, he stated.
The senator refuted accusations that he had requested favors or carried out any type of extortion when seeking payment of the amounts, classifying these interpretations as “flippant”. He also denied personal proximity to Vorcaro and said that expressions such as “brother”, mentioned in revealed messages, are part of common slang in Rio de Janeiro, without indicating intimacy.
Flávio also defended the installation of a Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPMI) to investigate the Banco Master case, stating that, “more than ever”, it is necessary to separate “the guilty from the innocent”. The senator also rejected attempts to associate him with what he classified as “spurious” contacts between members of the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and the banker.
