Brazil's Federal Police finished three reports on the ties between Supreme Court justices Alexandre de Moraes, Dias Toffoli and Kassio Nunes Marques and Banco Master owner Daniel Vorcaro, at the request of Chief Justice Edson Fachin, according to Brazilian press reports.
BRASILIA — Brazil’s Federal Police (PF) concluded three reports on the relationship between Supreme Court justices Alexandre de Moraes, Dias Toffoli and Kassio Nunes Marques and Daniel Vorcaro, the owner of Banco Master, according to Brazilian press reports on Monday, Nov. 9, first published by the newspaper O Globo and repeated by Revista Oeste, Jovem Pan and others. Chief Justice Edson Fachin ordered the reports in early October. They gather material with possible criminal repercussions, the outlets say.
The reports describe, in different degrees, contacts between each justice, or people around them, and the banker. On Moraes, the reporting points to 52 messages exchanged with Vorcaro, meetings and contracts, including payments of R$131 million for services over three years and shares in a jet valued at R$50 million, both tied to the law firm of the justice’s wife. Other Brazilian outlets reported that Vorcaro met Moraes twice before he was arrested and that his phone logs 316 interactions with the justice. On Nunes Marques, the reports cite conversations with people close to him and references to rulings on court-ordered debt payments and contracts. On Toffoli, they cite court decisions of interest to Vorcaro and the purchase of a stake in the Tayaya Resort, a family venture.
The PF found no indication involving three other justices: Gilmar Mendes, André Mendonça and Luiz Fux. According to the reporting, Fachin asked that the material be presented “strictly in a descriptive way,” without value judgments or accusations of crimes, and demanded clarification “without any exception of fact or person.”
Why it matters
Banco Master is one of the biggest financial scandals in Brazil in years, and the court that will rule on its fallout is the same one whose members now appear in the police file. In the United States, three justices of the Supreme Court named in reports by federal investigators on their dealings with a bank owner would face calls to step aside from the case. In Brazil, the justices keep judging. For American investors and for Washington, which treats Brazil as a partner on security and finance, the question is whether the courts that police the banking system can do so when their own members are part of the story. It also lands as the Senate, the only body that can remove a justice, is about to choose its next leader.
The record
What is documented: that the PF concluded three reports, that Fachin ordered them, and that the reports name Moraes, Toffoli and Nunes Marques. What remains an allegation: the content of the relationships. The reports, as described, are not accusations, and none of the three justices has been charged. The figures on messages, contracts and interactions come from leaks to the press, and they differ between outlets. What is not in dispute is the asymmetry. A banker’s private messages with sitting justices are now part of a federal file, and the justices will be the ones to decide what happens to it.
Under the Lula regime, which relies on this court as its main institutional shield, the pattern is hard to miss. The institution that should investigate the capture of Banco Master is itself named in the evidence, and the public has been told to trust the process.
The Watch Post Daily will continue to follow this story. Sources: O Globo, via Revista Oeste; Jovem Pan; O Antagonista; Diário do Poder; Poder360.
Featured image: Alexandre de Moraes at a ceremony signing laws and decrees protecting women, July 29, 2026 by Supremo Tribunal Federal STF, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
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