Emails exchanged with Santander bank in May 2025 indicate that an account identified under the name of senator and presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), the eldest son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, was linked to the banking access of a company owned by lawyer Willer Tomaz, who is under investigation by the Federal Police on suspicion of money laundering. The story was published on Saturday (10) by UOL, in a report by journalist Fábio Serapião, and picked up by Brasil 247 and Revista Fórum.
According to the reporting, the messages were obtained by the Federal Police from files stored in the lawyer's cloud storage and concern an account related to Alcazar Holdings, a company based in Madeira, Portugal, of which Tomaz is a partner. On May 22, 2025, Fayla Zulmira Menezes, an employee of the lawyer, asked Santander to remove an account identified as "Flávio Bolsonaro" from the group of accesses tied to the so-called "master user" associated with Tomaz. The bank confirmed the removal on the same day.
What is confirmed and what remains open
The banking record shows that the account in the senator's name shared the same administrative access under which the inclusion of Alcazar Holdings had been requested, alongside a personal account belonging to Willer Tomaz. Under Santander's system, a "master" profile can carry out all operations on a business account, while secondary users are limited to the permissions granted by the administrator.
The reports themselves stress the limits of the material gathered so far: the documentation does not prove who actually moved funds, what amounts were transferred, or whether the senator received money of illicit origin. The Federal Police pointed to the need to deepen the investigation into the lawyer's financial transactions, his companies and his relationships with public officials, among them Flávio Bolsonaro. The senator has not been formally charged in this case.
The exchange of messages took place about a month after the first phase of Operação Sem Desconto (Operation No Discount), which investigates improper association fees deducted from benefits paid by the INSS, Brazil's social security agency, with losses that may reach R$ 6.3 billion (about US$ 1.2 billion). According to Revista Fórum, Willer Tomaz is also investigated for moving R$ 13 billion in the betting sector. This is not the first revealed link between the senator and figures in the scandal: earlier reports showed that Bravo Grafeno, a helmet company in which Flávio is a partner, was registered at the same Brasília office used as a registered address by at least 16 companies tied to Antonio Carlos Camilo Antunes, known as the "Careca do INSS" (INSS Bald Man). In September, congresswoman Erika Hilton (Psol-SP) asked Supreme Court justice André Mendonça to include Flávio in the INSS fraud inquiry.
What readers can watch next: the Federal Police continue to analyze the material seized from the lawyer's cloud storage, and it is up to the Supreme Court to decide whether the senator will formally join the list of investigated parties. As of publication, Flávio Bolsonaro had made no public statement about the emails in the outlets consulted.