Messages pulled from the cellphone of Daniel Vorcaro, the former Banco Master owner jailed by Brazil's Federal Police on suspicion of fraud, mention alleged payments of R$ 500,000 a month to lawyer Kevin Marques, son of Supreme Court Justice Kassio Nunes Marques. The exchanges were with Luiz Rennó, the bank's former legal director, and became public on Tuesday, hours before the Supreme Federal Tribunal opened a session to decide whether to order an investigation of Justice Alexandre de Moraes over his ties to Vorcaro. The reporting is from G1.
According to G1, on July 4, 2025, Rennó sent Vorcaro the son's contact and asked, "Esse aqui - 500 mil mês - mantém?" ("This one, 500,000 a month, still stands?"), then added, "Então esse aqui já era né" ("So this one is finished then, right"). On October 1, 2024, Rennó had reported the bank's win in the "Alcídia" case, a dispute over precatórios, the court-ordered government debt payments at issue in the sugar and ethanol sector, and noted that Justices Edson Fachin, Dias Toffoli and Nunes Marques had voted in the bank's favor. He then forwarded the son's contact with the message "Dominado aqui" ("All set here").
The consultancy and Kevin Marques' denial
The same material references the consultancy Consult. In August 2025, when Rennó sent a list of consultancies and law firms tied to officials and asked about priorities, Vorcaro replied, "Consult? Guido e Lewandowski". On August 8, Rennó wrote: "Dos pagamentos essenciais está faltando a consult" ("Among the essential payments, the consult is missing"). G1 reports that Consult belongs to a business partner of the justice's son and shares an e-mail address with the IPTF, a tax research institute owned by Kevin Marques.
In a statement, Kevin Marques denied receiving money from Vorcaro and said his legal work has no connection to the Supreme Court:
"As previously informed, lawyer Kevin Marques received R$ 281,600 from Consult, a company for which he provided specialized legal services in the administrative tax area. Lawyer Kevin Marques' professional work for Consult has no relation whatsoever to the Supreme Federal Tribunal."
What Nunes Marques said
At the start of the session, Nunes Marques defended his impartiality. "My son never provided any service to the bank or was paid by the bank," he said, according to BBC News Brasil. The justice said he had never ruled on a case involving Master, never exchanged messages with Vorcaro, and that his son's bank secrecy has already been lifted: "There is no point in speculating otherwise." He added: "If I felt uncomfortable or co-opted in any way, I would never have voted to confirm the arrest of Daniel Vorcaro, his father and other people involved."
He then recused himself from the case. As president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), the body that runs Brazil's elections, he said he was not comfortable ruling in a judgment that could affect the campaign ahead of the October 4 vote, and left the chamber. Justice Dias Toffoli declared himself conflicted, for personal reasons, and will also not vote. The material released on Tuesday is part of the same phone extraction that mentions Justice André Mendonça, the rapporteur of the Master case, and a son of Justice Luiz Fux.
How the case got here
Federal police arrested Vorcaro in November 2025 in Operation Compliance Zero. On September 1, Mendonça unsealed a police report on contacts between Vorcaro and Moraes, including messages about a R$ 131 million contract between the bank and the law firm of Moraes' wife. Moraes denies wrongdoing and on September 3 asked the court to investigate Mendonça. On Saturday, court president Edson Fachin took over petition 16,662, in which the justices must decide whether to accept the police report and open an investigation of Moraes. The Prosecutor General's office has asked that the report be voided.
The session continues on Tuesday, with the votes still open and no scheduled end time. Before ruling on Moraes, the justices must first decide whether Mendonça acted improperly when he asked the Federal Police for the report without consulting the full court.