A group tied to former banker Daniel Vorcaro, who is under investigation in the Master case, obtained information from sealed case files at the MPF, Brazil's federal prosecution service, including, according to Folha de S.Paulo, records on the Banco Master itself and on BRB, the public bank of the Brasília district government. The finding comes from a Federal Police report sent to the STF, Brazil's Supreme Court. The queries were logged under the functional credentials of prosecution staff, the PF says. The material became public after Justice André Mendonça lifted the secrecy order on the case's main investigations on Thursday (10), at the request of the court's president, Edson Fachin.

A report by Folha published on Friday (11) details the episodes. In one of them, a document attributed to the MPF was used to find out who had hired a helicopter that allegedly flew over the former banker's house in Bahia state. Messages reproduced in the report show Luiz Phillipi Machado de Moraes Mourão, known as Sicário and identified as Felipe Mourão in the chats, offering Vorcaro the chance to research people and companies and forwarding results of queries into internal systems, including sealed proceedings. In June 2024 he sent a list of names of people and companies and said Vorcaro could add others "to pull the sealed ones." Asked in another exchange which documents he wanted to receive, Vorcaro replied: "All of them, obviously."

According to the PF, Mourão was paid R$ 1 million a month to work as Vorcaro's operational executor. The tasks described by Folha include access to confidential information, coercion and the fabrication of dossiers; CNN Brasil adds monitoring, removal of online content, hacker attacks and dealings with criminals. Investigators describe Mourão as a member of the core known as A Turma ("the crew"), presented by Folha as an alleged militia set up to monitor and intimidate people seen as adversaries or connected to the inquiries into the bank.

What the report says

After analyzing data extracted from Vorcaro's phone, the PF concluded that he had built an "organized structure, with a functional division of tasks" aimed at repeated unlawful conduct on several fronts. The access took place through third parties' functional logins, improper extraction of documents and unauthorized queries in internal systems, the document says.

"The messages show that there was recurrent and irregular access to sealed proceedings under way at the MPF, the Federal Police, the Civil Police and the Central Bank," the report states, as cited by CNN Brasil.

In the table of people named in the investigation, the PF notes that the login of two MPF staff members was used repeatedly to access sealed cases, with a notation of "possible improper use, with or without conscious participation." Information protected by secrecy was used for purposes "unrelated to the public interest," the document says.

Timeline

• The Master case brings together at the STF investigations into fraud attributed to the Banco Master group, which was controlled by Vorcaro and has since been liquidated. The bank drew scrutiny after the website Intercept Brasil published chats in which presidential hopeful Flávio Bolsonaro asked Vorcaro for money to finance the film "Dark Horse"; the former banker paid R$ 61 million to the producers through a fund in the United States, according to G1.
• The Federal Police has pursued the group through successive phases of Operation Compliance Zero.
• March 4: Mourão is arrested in Compliance Zero and dies by hanging in his cell at the Federal Police superintendence in Minas Gerais; his death is confirmed two days later.
• Thursday (10): Mendonça grants Fachin's request and lifts the secrecy order; part of the files is released that same night.
• Friday (11): Folha details the access to sealed MPF data on Master and BRB.

In testimony to the Federal Police, Vorcaro denied obtaining privileged information from the Central Bank and has again signaled a plea deal proposal, according to CNN Brasil. The inquiries remain under partial secrecy: Mendonça kept sealed, among others, the investigations into the financing of "Dark Horse" and into Senator Jaques Wagner's relationship with former Master partner Augusto Ferreira Lima, G1 reports. The PF report remains before the court, where the Master investigations are handled by Mendonça as rapporteur.