Brazil's Federal Police recovered roughly three months of message exchanges between banker Daniel Vorcaro, former owner of Banco Master, and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the right-wing candidate for president in Brazil's October election. The records mention six meetings between the two men. Older message history had been deleted. The newspaper Estadão obtained the extraction details and published them on Thursday (24).
The contact began on December 16, 2024, when Vorcaro added the senator's phone number to his contact list, and the app logged a missed WhatsApp call that same day. Because Flávio used the setting that automatically deletes messages after 90 days, police recovered only the exchanges from August 20 to November 16, 2025. The next day, Vorcaro was arrested at Guarulhos international airport in São Paulo as he tried to board a flight abroad, under an order from the 10th Federal Court of Brasília. In the recovered period, the banker was trying to sell Banco Master and was already under Federal Police investigation for suspected financial crimes.
What the messages show
The first meeting cited, on August 20, 2025, appears to have taken place, according to the log. "21 pode ser" ("Can it be at 9?"), Vorcaro wrote at 5:22 p.m. "Blz" ("OK"), Flávio replied. At 9:47 p.m., the senator wrote: "A caminho" ("On my way"). Fifteen days later, the Central Bank rejected the sale of Master to BRB (Banco Regional de Brasília) after a review that lasted just over five months. On September 17, Vorcaro proposed another meeting: "Opa. 14h30?" "Hop. Blz," Flávio confirmed. On October 1, one day after the Federal Police opened an inquiry into Master's management and the attempted purchase by BRB, Vorcaro sent a message to arrange a meeting. No reply was recorded.
On October 22, Flávio invited the banker to dinner in São Paulo with actor Jim Caviezel and director Cyrus Nowrasteh, from the film "Dark Horse", a biopic of former president Jair Bolsonaro, Flávio's father. "Topa jantar com o Jim Caviezel e o Cyrus em São Paulo no dia 2/Nov (segunda)? Totalmente reservado" ("How about dinner with Jim Caviezel and Cyrus in São Paulo on Nov 2? Fully private"), he wrote. The records show the dinner never happened. In the same exchanges, Flávio pressed Vorcaro over payments to the film that had been agreed with the banker earlier; the total transferred was about 60 million reais. The website Intercept Brasil published the payment demands in May. Estadão cautions that, apart from the August 20 meeting, there is no way to confirm the other cited meetings took place.
Contact before the arrest, and the reaction
The records show Flávio tried to reach Vorcaro in the four days before the arrest. "Fala mermao! Bom dia! Pode atender?" ("Hey brother! Good morning! Can you take a call?"), he wrote on November 13. On the eve of the arrest, after another unanswered call, he sent:
"Irmão, estou e estarei contigo sempre, não tem meia conversa entre a gente. Só preciso que me dê uma luz! Abs" ("Brother, I am and will always be with you, there is no half-conversation between us. I just need you to give me a light!")
The senator's office was contacted by Estadão and did not respond. Flávio played down the information in a livestream on Wednesday (23), called the case "maluquice" (madness) and said: "Se é isso aqui que vocês têm, meu amigo... Esquece, vai ser no 1º turno que a gente vai ganhar essa eleição" ("If this is what you have, my friend... forget it, we will win this election in the first round"). He denied that businessman Luciano Hang financed the film and said the production cost did not reach 400 million reais, according to the news site Poder360.
The disclosures come ten days before the first round of the presidential election. A Datafolha poll released on Thursday shows President Lula at 47% and Flávio at 45% in a runoff scenario, a technical tie. The Federal Police inquiries into Banco Master remain open. According to Poder360, expectations circulate in Brasília that more data from Vorcaro's phone will surface, possibly including references to Supreme Court ministers, though nothing has been confirmed.