A Federal Police report made public on Tuesday (September 1) says Daniel Vorcaro, former owner of Banco Master, negotiated handing over ownership shares in a business jet and a helicopter as payment for a second contract worth R$50 million with the law firm of Viviane Barci de Moraes, wife of Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. The report was built from data extracted from one of the banker's cellphones, and Justice André Mendonça, who oversees the court's inquiry into fraud at the bank, lifted its confidentiality.

According to Folha de S.Paulo, the draft contract foresaw settling R$40 million through the transfer of the shares in the two aircraft, with the remaining R$10 million to be paid as reimbursement for flight expenses. Investigators found the drafts in messages from May 2025. In one exchange, debating with a lawyer whether the "assets" should pass to the firm immediately or only when the contract ended, Vorcaro replied: "os ativos são deles já" (the assets are already theirs).

The flights

The messages indicate the aircraft were already serving the couple. On July 9, 2025, Moraes entered the executive terminal in Brasília at 10:34 p.m., and the Legacy 650 jet, registration PP-NLR, took off for the executive airport of São Roque, in São Paulo state, news site g1 reported. The aircraft belongs to Prime, an aviation company in which Vorcaro was a partner, referred to by Folha as Prime Aviation. In messages that month, a partner of his at the company, identified by Folha as Marcos Mata, confirmed that the justice and his wife "had already used planes and helicopters" and spoke of the "final adjustments of the 2 P1 quotas for them".

The report also includes a screenshot of a chat between that partner and Viviane. He asked whether they were enjoying "the use of your quotas"; she replied that they were enjoying it very much and that everyone who served them "was always polite and attentive". In another exchange, when a Prime employee mentioned a trip Viviane had booked for August, Vorcaro answered: "Não deixa de atender Barci" (do not fail to serve Barci).

Timeline and responses

The case grows out of a Federal Police operation investigating fraud at Banco Master, a bank now in liquidation that Vorcaro controlled. The main dates:

• February 2024: on the 8th, Vorcaro sends his brother-in-law proof of a R$3.4 million transfer to the Barci de Moraes law firm, the first payment under the original contract of about R$130 million.
• March 2024: on the 15th, former communications minister Fábio Faria, who the Federal Police says made the first contact between Moraes and Vorcaro, presses on the delay with the words "O careca não pode atrasar" (the bald one cannot be late). Vorcaro tells partner Angelo Silva that "they did not pay Barci de Moraes", calls the contract "the most important we have" and instructs staff to pay it monthly even without an invoice.
• April 2025: Vorcaro asks that no one at the bank be allowed to see the contract.
• May 2025: drafts of the second contract, worth R$50 million and payable in aircraft shares, appear in the messages.
• July 2025: Moraes flies on the Legacy 650 PP-NLR and the parties discuss the "final adjustments" of the shares.
• September 1, 2026: Mendonça unseals the report and sends it to the Attorney General's office.

In a statement, the law firm said it signed only the first contract, of about R$130 million, and denies any "transfer or substitution of the contract". It said Vorcaro's proposal was not accepted and that "nothing was signed and the original contract was extinguished with the liquidation of the bank, which ended any link with the institution". Vorcaro is under investigation and, according to g1, was arrested in the police operation. The report's findings must still be reviewed by prosecutors and by the court, and none of the people named has been convicted.

The file now goes to the PGR, the office of Brazil's chief federal prosecutor, for a formal position. Mendonça wrote in the decision that released the document:

"Given the content of the information presented by the police authority, regardless of the position expressed by the Attorney General's Office, the inevitable path of these proceedings leads to the plenary of this Supreme Federal Court, the sovereign body to analyze, in a technical and strictly legal manner, the new elements brought by the police authority"

Mendonça also said any decision by the full bench should come in a public, in-person session, and that court President Edson Fachin is to set a date. None has been announced so far.