Brazil's Federal Police told the president of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), Justice Luiz Edson Fachin, on Sunday morning (13) that it has full technical capacity to produce and send identical copies of the data extracted from the phone of banker Daniel Vorcaro to every justice's office that has requested the material. The reply met a 24-hour deadline Fachin had set on Saturday (12).
In a statement, the force said the device and the original extraction remain stored in its own facilities and have never left the institution. It added that the file sent in March to the office of Justice André Mendonça, who had been reporting investigations tied to the case, was a copy of the extracted data, not the original, and that the delivery answered a formal request from his own office.
The Federal Police said it is committed to preserving the chain of custody of the evidence and stands ready to provide further information or run integrity checks. According to InfoMoney, the sharing can happen immediately once Fachin authorizes it, with individual identification of seals and certification of the material's integrity. The decision now rests with the court's president.
The dispute inside the court
The response comes amid a dispute among the justices over unrestricted access to a full mirror of the device, an iPhone 17 Pro seized in Operação Compliance Zero, an investigation into billion-real fraud at Banco Master. Vorcaro, a former controller of the bank, was arrested in November 2025 and is under investigation for fraud estimated at 12.2 billion reais (about 2.2 billion dollars), according to BBC News Brasil.
Justices Cristiano Zanin, Alexandre de Moraes and Gilmar Mendes, the court's most senior member, have pressed Fachin for access to the complete data. "The requested media is in Your Excellency's cabinet and must be shared with the other judges so that everyone has the same opportunity to analyze the elements related to this case," Zanin wrote in an official letter. Moraes said it is "not up to the reporting justice to choose which documents are accessible to the panel to conduct its judgment." Gilmar asked the presidency to requisition the media directly from the Federal Police, with urgency, if the rapporteur does not release them.
Mendonça has said the material in his possession is a sealed, encrypted backup copy kept as a safeguard in case the original is lost, and that he has not handled it. He told Fachin the phone itself is stored in Federal Police deposits.
On Tuesday (15), the full court is scheduled to review the Federal Police report that flagged messages exchanged between Vorcaro and Justice Moraes. The Prosecutor General's office has also asked for access to the full content, arguing that selective disclosure of messages must be avoided. Whether the data reach the justices' offices before the session now depends on Fachin.