Flávio Bolsonaro, the PL presidential candidate and son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, used a São Paulo apartment during his campaign that until February belonged to Fabiano Zettel, the brother-in-law identified as the top financial operator of former banker Daniel Vorcaro. The magazine piauí published the report on Wednesday. The apartment sits in the l'Adresse tower in Vila Nova Conceição, one of the most expensive neighborhoods of the city.
According to the magazine, the senator spent several days there in the first half of August. He met his team to settle final campaign strategy, recorded videos for the free electoral airtime on TV and radio, held meetings around Faria Lima avenue and recorded podcasts. The campaign office stood five minutes away by car, on Avenida República do Líbano, where he taped his Thursday livestreams. Plainclothes officers of the Polícia Legislativa, the congressional police, swept the building's common areas during his stay.
From the operator to a friend of the candidate
Zettel bought the 158.87-square-meter apartment on April 17, 2025 for 5.5 million reais, a market price. Less than ten months later, on February 10, 2026, he sold it for 3.5 million reais to WT Administração de Imóveis e Bens, a company owned by lawyer Willer Tomaz, a longtime friend of the candidate. The deal, first revealed by Folha de S.Paulo and confirmed by piauí, meant a nominal loss of 2 million reais, about 36 percent of what Zettel had paid. The transfer was registered in a notary office on March 4, after the Supreme Court had ordered Zettel's assets frozen and on the very day he was arrested in the third phase of Operação Compliance Zero.
piauí's reporters visited the building and spoke with residents and with an employee of the school where the congressional police cars were parked. They confirmed Flávio's presence and the movement of officers. An influencer who lived in the apartment while it belonged to Zettel said the businessman, once a pastor at the Lagoinha Baptist Church, used it on his visits to São Paulo. Residents bothered by the sweeps asked the building manager for the security camera footage and were told the recordings had been accidentally erased. The manager did not answer the magazine's questions about the erasure.
Conflicting accounts
The answers given to the reporters contradict the findings. Tomaz denied by phone that Flávio had used his property. A day later, in a statement, he said he did not know Zettel or Vorcaro and had never had any "personal, commercial or corporate relationship" with either. He did not directly answer whether the candidate had used the apartment. Flávio's campaign said the candidate stayed only in hotels in the area and did not reply when asked how the apartment had been used.
Zettel is a central figure in the investigations of the so-called Caso Master, the scandal around Vorcaro, the former controller of Banco Master, that has thrown the Supreme Court into crisis. According to the Federal Police, companies in Zettel's name were used in operations controlled by Vorcaro, and a police report said it was "conclusively established" that he was the banker's front man. He also appears in negotiations to finance "Dark Horse", a biopic of Jair Bolsonaro; the timeline assembled by the police shows Zettel involved in those operations while Flávio pressed for and tracked payments from Vorcaro. Tomaz, targeted by a Federal Police search in August in Operação Sem Desconto, an investigation into fraud in INSS benefit discounts, is not under investigation in the Master case, according to the magazine. It also reports that the lawyer helped Flávio arrange nominations to high courts, and that interlocutors say Flávio met Supreme Court Justice Kassio Nunes Marques at Tomaz's home.
The report lands 18 days before the first round of the presidential election, set for October 4. Neither the campaign nor Tomaz answered the central question raised by the reporting: whether the candidate used, during his campaign, an apartment that once belonged to Vorcaro's operator.