Messages seized by Brazil's Federal Police from the phone of Daniel Vorcaro, the former owner of Banco Master who is jailed on suspicion of fraud, show a close relationship between the banker and lawyer Rodrigo Fux, son of Supreme Federal Tribunal Justice Luiz Fux. The exchanges run from May 2024 to August 2025 and were published on Tuesday (15) by the news outlets Metrópoles and Metro1. The phone's contents had been delivered on Monday (14) to the chambers of Justices Cristiano Zanin, Gilmar Mendes and Alexandre de Moraes, who had requested the material before a session in which Brazil's top court examined Moraes's ties to the banker.
At several points, Rodrigo Fux addresses Vorcaro as "irmao" (brother). On May 17, 2024, he opens a chat with "Fala irmao. Tudo bem?"; in November, saying he was free for a call, he writes "Vamos irmao? Liberei". On December 4, 2024, arranging a meeting at his office in Rio de Janeiro, he said he had rescheduled another commitment to receive the banker at 2 p.m. and then sent: "Tapete vermelho irmao" (red carpet, brother). Vorcaro replied: "Valeu irmao!". A month earlier, the banker had written "Quero te chamar pra me ajudar num caso" (I want to ask you to help me with a case). The justice's son answered "Será um prazer, se eu puder ajudar" (it will be a pleasure, if I can help) and, after a video call, received a document for review.
The link to the justice's chambers
The direct connection to the justice appears in conversations from March 2025, according to Metro1. On the 11th, Rodrigo Fux contacted Vorcaro to arrange a meeting in Brasilia and said he would first stop by Justice Luís Roberto Barroso's birthday. At 10:12 a.m. on the 12th, he wrote: "Bom dia. 10:30hs tô aí". At 1:29 p.m., he asked "Qual a data de Londres mesmo?" (what was the London date again?) and asked that material on the engagement be sent to his own email and to Patrícia, Luiz Fux's secretary at the court. "E para a Patrícia. Secretária do meu pai. Com cópia pra mim", he wrote, giving an address on the court's institutional domain. Vorcaro answered "Vou pedir!" (I will ask). According to Metro1, the exchanges indicate the lawyer helped arrange his father's participation in a London event connected to Vorcaro, but they do not clarify the justice's role nor allow the conclusion that he met the banker.
The reports themselves stress the limits of the material: the messages do not identify who would attend the meetings they describe, and on their own they do not show that Luiz Fux took part. The chats mix professional and social matters. According to Metrópoles, the two met in Brasilia in February 2025 at a house in the Lago Sul district, and during Rio's 2025 Carnival the banker invited the lawyer and his family to a VIP box.
In a statement, the firm Fux Advogados said it never represented, provided services to or received payments from Vorcaro, Banco Master or companies and funds tied to the group. It said the tone of the exchanges reflects a business approach by the banker and partners that never went forward and took place more than a year before reports of suspected fraud and criminal implications involving Vorcaro. The justice was contacted through the court's press office and had not responded by publication time. None of the reports cites a formal accusation against Rodrigo Fux.
How the case reached this point
The phone was seized as the Federal Police investigates Banco Master, and its contents surfaced hours before Tuesday's session, in which the court examined alleged dialogues between Vorcaro and Justice Alexandre de Moraes, whose wife, Viviane Barci de Moraes, signed a 131 million reais contract with the bank, according to G1. In the same batch of messages, chats between Vorcaro and the bank's former legal director mentioned supposed monthly payments of 500,000 reais to lawyer Kevin Marques, son of Justice Kassio Nunes Marques. Kevin denied receiving those amounts and said he was paid 281,600 reais by a consultancy, Consult, for tax work unrelated to the Supreme Court. Nunes Marques said his son never worked for Master and declared himself barred from the session, citing his role as president of the Superior Electoral Court, which runs Brazil's elections.
The session ended without a decision on how to handle the cases of Moraes and of Justice André Mendonça, the rapporteur of the Master case: the vote stood at 4 to 3 for separate proceedings, Justice Flávio Dino asked to review the case files, and the judgment was suspended. According to Folha de S.Paulo, resuming it may take up to 90 days, pushing it past the October 4 election. The messages involving Rodrigo Fux are part of the Federal Police material under review by the justices.