Daniel Vorcaro, the former owner of Banco Master and an investigated party in the bank's case before Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF), told an employee who, according to investigators, handled his travel bookings to give priority to a flight that would serve lawyer Viviane Barci, the wife of Justice Alexandre de Moraes. The exchange appears in Federal Police transcripts detailed by the newspaper Estadão on Sunday. One day after the messages, on August 22, 2025, the justice himself flew on the jet registered PP-NLR, a Legacy 650 owned by Prime You, a company tied to the banker, according to footage released by the newspaper O Globo.

According to the transcripts, on August 21, 2025, Vorcaro asked a contact listed as "Thatiane Prime" about chartering a flight from Brasília to Roraima state. Someone in the operation replied that the aircraft was already booked: "We have the Barci flight on the PP-NLR, taking off from Catarina at 1 pm", reads the message, a likely reference to São Paulo Catarina Executive Airport, in São Roque, São Paulo state. Vorcaro replied: "Do not fail to attend to Barci." Estadão reports the flight was bound for Santos Dumont Airport, in Rio de Janeiro, where the video shows the couple disembarking on August 22, the day Moraes spoke at a forum held by Lide, a group that gathers top Brazilian executives.

Contacted for comment, the Barci de Moraes law firm, where Viviane is a partner, admitted hiring air taxi services from several companies, including Prime Aviation, the flight's operator. It said Vorcaro was never on board the company's aircraft and that "on certain flights, Viviane Barci de Moraes was accompanied by her husband, Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Federal Court".

"The hiring of air taxi services follows operational criteria and does not involve any personal ties with aircraft owners or specific operators. The choice of the aircraft used belongs to the civil aviation companies hired", reads the statement, which also says the firm has no contract with Prime Aviation and never bought shares in the company.

The admission contrasts with a statement from Moraes's office on March 31. At the time, after Folha de S.Paulo reported that the justice had taken at least eight flights on planes linked to Vorcaro, the office called the story "fanciful" and said he had "never traveled on any plane of Daniel Vorcaro". In a written defense filed with the STF on September 15, Moraes denied the existence of a second contract, worth 50 million reais, which the Federal Police says was signed on May 12, 2025, between the firm and Viking Participações, a company represented by Vorcaro.

Timeline

• January 2024: Banco Master signs a 131 million reais services contract with the Barci de Moraes firm, in 36 monthly installments of 3.6 million reais, according to the Federal Police.
• May 12, 2025: the Federal Police points to the signing of a second contract, of 50 million reais, with Viking; an accord on May 19 provided for settling 40 million reais with stakes in aircraft companies.
• August 21 and 22, 2025: Vorcaro asks priority for the family's flight ("Do not fail to attend to Barci"); on the 22nd, Moraes and Viviane are seen on video disembarking from the PP-NLR at Santos Dumont.
• March 31, 2026: the justice's office denies he ever flew on aircraft linked to Vorcaro.
• September 15, 2026: in a written defense to the STF, Moraes denies the second contract.
• September 20, 2026: O Globo releases the video, Estadão publishes the transcripts and the law firm admits using Prime Aviation.

At the court, the episode feeds the clash between Moraes and Justice André Mendonça, the justice assigned to write the Master inquiry's rulings. Moraes accuses his colleague of abuse of authority and of acting politically against him. Mendonça, in turn, has asked the full court to examine the messages exchanged between Vorcaro and Moraes; the petition has been stalled since Justice Flávio Dino asked to review it and, according to Valdo Cruz's blog at G1, should only return to the bench after the elections. Former justices argue the ties between the banker and the judge must be investigated.

No court has found any crime related to the flights. Vorcaro remains an investigated party in the Master inquiry, and both the law firm and the justice deny wrongdoing. The next procedural step is the deadline ending on Monday (21) for Mendonça to answer in writing Moraes's accusations of abuse of authority, administrative improbity and crimes of responsibility, according to Estadão.