Justice André Mendonça of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) on Monday (31) sent the Prosecutor General's Office (PGR) a request to respond within five days to a Federal Police report on messages seized from Daniel Vorcaro, former owner of Banco Master, who is jailed in the Compliance Zero operation. In the messages, the banker would have asked an unidentified interlocutor to enlist "Andrei" and "Paulo" on his behalf. Investigators read those references as Andrei Rodrigues, head of the Federal Police, and Paulo Gonet, Brazil's prosecutor general.

The news was first reported by the website Metrópoles and confirmed by TV Globo and the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo. According to g1, Globo's news portal, the Federal Police found the note on one of Vorcaro's phones in late October 2025. The recipient is not identified in the records because the banker reportedly had a habit of saving notes, taking screenshots of conversations and sending the image back as a one-time view message. Federal Police investigators have not ruled out that the message was a protection request addressed to Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the STF. Mendonça is the reporting justice for the investigation into financial fraud at Master.

What the report says

According to the document produced by the investigators, Vorcaro described the bank's situation and the problems he faced. He said he had received confidential information from Central Bank officials that "G", read as a reference to bank president Gabriel Galípolo, and the other directors were under strong pressure to take action against the institution because of intense demands from the Federal Police and the federal prosecutors' office. In the banker's account, both agencies claimed they would take steps against him.

"Daniel Vorcaro also said it was important for the interlocutor to press Andrei (probably Andrei Augusto Rodrigues, Director General of the Federal Police) and Paulo (probably Paulo Gonet Branco, Prosecutor General of the Republic) on the need to prevent subordinates within the hierarchies of the Federal Police and the federal prosecutors' office from playing 'a dirty trick', because, in his words, 'it all goes down the drain'."

The passage comes from the Federal Police report as transcribed by g1; the quote is translated from Portuguese. The report itself describes the identifications of Andrei and Paulo as probable, and the recipient of the message has not been confirmed. The PGR did not respond to requests for comment from g1. Folha said it contacted the offices of Andrei, Gonet and Moraes on Tuesday (1) and had received no reply by publication time.

How the case got here

Master became the target of fraud investigations and Vorcaro was jailed in Compliance Zero. The case took on political weight with the release of audio recordings in which Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, now a presidential candidate, asks Vorcaro for 61 million reais to finish "Dark Horse", a film about Jair Bolsonaro, according to Folha. In an interview with Globo on Friday (28), Bolsonaro said it is "never too much" to explain his relationship with Vorcaro and called the matter "more than clarified". The timeline:

• September 2025: the Central Bank rejects the sale of Master to BRB, with suspicions about the bank already public;
• Late October 2025: the Federal Police finds the note mentioning Andrei and Paulo on one of Vorcaro's phones;
• July 2026: Mendonça authorizes a Federal Police inquiry into transfers tied to the film, after Gonet found sufficient grounds;
• August 31, 2026: the justice sends the document to the PGR and sets the five-day deadline.

The next step belongs to the PGR, which has five days from Monday (31) to respond. As of the publication of the reports on Tuesday, none of the officials named in the document had spoken publicly about the content of the messages.