Federal Supreme Court (STF) Minister André Mendonça secretly met with banker and Banco Master owner Daniel Vorcaro on March 14th last year in São Paulo (SP). The messages and audios showing the meeting took place were extracted from Vorcaro's cell phone and obtained exclusively byText: newsletterHungarian NightsThe meeting, which lasted approximately two hours, took place at the address of an institute founded by the judge himself, according to an investigative report by journalist Paulo Motoryn. The minister admitted the meeting in a statement also released by Motoryn on Wednesday, February 2.
The revelation comes a day after Mendonça himself ordered the phone records of the banker to be unsealed and exposed a suspected exchange of messages with his colleague on the Court, Minister Alexandre de Moraes of the STF.
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"The meeting's topic was the issues the Master Bank had been facing with the Central Bank supervision, which therefore would be a very serious conflict of interest. André Mendonça denies that this was the topic," he notes.
Another figure that emerges from Paulo Motoryn's revelations is the former Attorney General of the Union under the former President Jair Bolsonaro, Bruno Bianco Leal, who also started working for Vorcaro. On this, the journalist highlights that it's always important to remember that the Máxima Bank became Master with authorization from the Central Bank during the Bolsonaro government.
"The Master Bank was dissolved during the Lula government. Obviously, Daniel Vorcaro corrupted people from different ideological spectrums. However, there is a prevalence, a very high predominance of figures linked to the Jair Bolsonaro government, the far right, and the Centrão. It's important to make that very clear at a time when we are in an election," concludes Paulo Motoryn.
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