Brazil's Prosecutor General's Office (PGR), which leads federal prosecutions, told the Supreme Federal Court (STF) on Monday (14) that it favors lifting secrecy on yet another strand of the Master case investigation: the file detailing the payment network of banker Daniel Vorcaro, who is jailed in Brasilia, and of the now-defunct bank. Whether to make the material public now rests with the court's president, Justice Edson Fachin.
The opinion responds to a request filed on Sunday (13) by Justice Alexandre de Moraes. He wants the case, numbered Pet 15.645 and assigned by prevention to Justice André Mendonça, opened and made available to all justices before Tuesday's (15) session on a Federal Police report that points to a supposed relationship between him and Vorcaro. According to CNN Brasil, Moraes says the filing contains "essential elements" for that ruling.
The PGR opinion was signed by Deputy Prosecutor General Hindenburgo Chateaubriand Filho. He said the office had not weighed in earlier because it did not know the file existed, and that the case had not even appeared visible to the institution in the court's system. The office says it has backed every request to lift secrecy it has reviewed in the case so far.
"Because this is a document considered relevant so that a Justice of this Court can understand the full range of factors involved in the matter to be debated, consistent with the premises of the earlier opinion, the Prosecutor General's Office understands that secrecy should also be lifted," the deputy prosecutor general wrote (translated from Portuguese).
How the case got here
Vorcaro was first arrested on November 17, 2025, as part of the investigations into Banco Master. The Federal Police found 52 messages exchanged between Moraes and the banker between December 21, 2023 and the date of that arrest. A police report, ordered by Mendonça, says the justice took direct part in reviewing and editing a 130 million reais contract between the bank and the Barci de Moraes law firm of lawyer Viviane Barci, Moraes's wife. The PGR, however, has asked the court to shelve that report, arguing it was produced irregularly: Mendonça ordered it without prior notice to the court's presidency, without submitting it to the full bench and, allegedly, with predetermined direction.
The fight over documents has consumed the court for days. On Friday (11), Mendonça lifted secrecy on dozens of proceedings after the PGR and justices demanded wider access to the Master files. Moraes criticized what he called "selective" disclosure and said digital files were still missing from the released set. According to G1, the court has made 53 Master-related proceedings public so far, following Fachin's request.
What comes next
Fachin must now decide whether Pet 15.645 will be made public. The next step comes on Tuesday (15), when the full court reviews the Federal Police report on the messages between Moraes and Vorcaro, in a session expected to determine whether the court opens an investigation into the justice. No one cited in the case has been convicted, and Moraes is not yet the target of an inquiry.