Messages obtained by Brazil's Federal Police in the Banco Master investigation indicate that Alexandre de Moraes, a justice of the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), the country's top court, took part in decisions on the guest list and the program of a legal forum the bank organized in London. According to a report by G1 on Tuesday, the chats record vetoes attributed to the justice and show that names of participants were submitted to him for approval. The material is part of the police investigation file on Daniel Vorcaro, the bank's owner, who is under investigation.
In one exchange, from July 2025, Vorcaro's marketing employee, Ana Matos, suggested Antônio Rueda, national president of the União Brasil party, as a moderator at the second edition of the London Brasil de Ideias legal forum, an edition that ended up cancelled. Vorcaro rejected the idea: "Rueda, no, right? No way. Alexandre dies if you do that. Actually, he kills us." Ana replied: "He orders an ankle monitor." Already in February 2025, according to the police report, the banker had said he needed "to approve it with alexandre", referring to the guest list.
The first edition of the forum took place in London between April 24 and 27, 2024. The police report describes a conversation on April 18 of that year between Vorcaro and Fábio Faria, a former communications minister under Bolsonaro, about a veto attributed to Moraes. "But I think Alexandre likes him to know that he vetoed it. His ego," Faria wrote. Vorcaro replied: "In the end he did veto it, it was clear." The report does not say who was vetoed.
Event program and travel costs
On July 21, 2025, Vorcaro wrote to Ana Matos that "Alexandre complained A LOT about the event" and, asked what had happened, answered "everything". He then pointed to one specific annoyance: "That we put Tarcísio in the spotlight." The investigation does not identify which Tarcísio they meant. The next day, Ana said she had spent the day with the justice's wife, Viviane de Moraes, and with Moraes himself: "I spent the day here with Vivi Moraes and the minister closing the program. They changed quite a lot, but it's getting good."
Other messages detail travel costs linked to the forum. According to G1, Vorcaro authorized payment of expenses for Prosecutor General Paulo Gonet and his son, Pedro Gonet, and the arrangement of a formal invitation, with costs paid by the organizers, to Andrei Passos, the head of the Federal Police. The columnist Mônica Bergamo, of Folha de S.Paulo, adds that on March 19, 2025, Vorcaro told Paulo Sérgio Neves de Souza, then the Central Bank's supervision director, that Moraes "will call Paulo to apply pressure". According to the column, investigations by the police and by the Central Bank itself found that Neves de Souza worked as an informal paid adviser to Vorcaro.
Vorcaro was arrested by the Federal Police on November 17, 2025, as he prepared to board a private jet to Malta, according to Folha. Neither G1 nor Folha reported any response from Moraes to the messages or any comment from Vorcaro's defense on this point, and the chats are part of an ongoing investigation. On Tuesday, STF Justice André Mendonça asked the court's president, Edson Fachin, to schedule an in-person session of the full bench to debate the messages between Moraes and Vorcaro. Mendonça called the plenary "the inevitable path" and the "sovereign body" to examine the police evidence. Fachin has yet to set a date.