Brazil's Federal Police are investigating whether lawyer Willer Tomaz acted as a business partner or financial operator for Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), who faces President Lula in Sunday's (25) presidential runoff. The information comes from journalist Andreia Sadi's blog on G1, which spoke with sources close to the investigations that led Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to order the freezing of up to R$ 6 billion (about US$ 1.2 billion) linked to the lawyer.
What is confirmed
On Friday (23), Moraes ordered the freezing of Tomaz's movable and immovable assets and the seizure of R$ 6 billion from his accounts, along with the cancellation of his passports and the lifting of banking and tax secrecy on the lawyer and his companies, including Alcazar Holding. The decision came in the second inquiry opened at the Supreme Court against Flávio Bolsonaro, under Moraes's rapporteurship, as revealed by Estadão. According to the newspaper, the Federal Police accessed emails in which an employee of Tomaz asks a bank to remove the senator from the "master user" profile of one of the accounts.
It is also documented that Tomaz was the person who deposited the most money on sports betting platforms in Brazil in 2025, according to the Finance Ministry: R$ 258 million deposited and R$ 5 billion wagered. In August, during Operação Sem Desconto, the Federal Police found a secret room in a hangar belonging to the lawyer's aviation company that was used to store cash.
What remains suspicion
The suspicion of a business partnership between Tomaz and Flávio Bolsonaro has not become a formal charge. According to G1, investigators see the lawyer as a possible financial operator for the senator, and police are trying to reconstruct the money trail, whose origin they consider obscure. One line of inquiry examines the laundering of roughly R$ 5 billion, with possible connections to the betting market. Another analyzes data stored in the cloud linked to a seized cellphone, including credit card bill payments and possible deals involving a law firm, in search of elements that would prove a corporate partnership.
Willer Tomaz's defense called Moraes's measures "disproportionate" and said in a statement that they amount to a fishing expedition in the middle of an election period. The lawyers deny that Flávio Bolsonaro was a "master user" of Alcazar accounts and say the senator never moved Tomaz's accounts. According to the statement, the two are friends.
At the Supreme Court, sources who spoke to G1 assess that the investigations will continue regardless of the election result, whether Flávio Bolsonaro wins or Lula (PT) is reelected. One source following the case described Tomaz as the senator's "broken femur", a reference to the political damage the inquiries could inflict. Measures such as further asset freezes and even an eventual arrest have not been ruled out, depending on the evidence gathered.
For readers following the case, the next milestones are concrete: the conclusion of the cloud data analysis and the lifted bank records, a possible indictment or formal charge by the Prosecutor-General's Office, and new rulings by Moraes in the inquiry. Until then, what exists is an ongoing investigation, with no formal accusation against the senator in this proceeding.