Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) justice Cristiano Zanin ordered the director general of the Federal Police, Andrei Rodrigues, to deliver by 11 p.m. on Sunday (13) a full copy of the data from the phone of Daniel Vorcaro, the owner of Banco Master. Zanin reported his decision to the court's president, Justice Luiz Edson Fachin.
The device is an iPhone 17 Pro seized on November 18, 2025, in the first phase of Operation Compliance Zero, the Federal Police inquiry into the bank, on the day Vorcaro was first arrested. The extracted data are part of the case file and include records involving Justice Alexandre de Moraes. The order comes two days before a full-bench session set for Tuesday (15), when the justices are due to review the Federal Police report on messages exchanged between Vorcaro and Moraes.
Mendonça objects, and the police push back
Earlier on Sunday, Justice André Mendonça, the rapporteur on the case, the justice who reviews the evidence and reports it to his colleagues, sent a formal note against opening and sharing the full contents. In his view, doing so "would only contribute to disrupting the trial" and would place "at risk the entire continuation and success of the investigations." Mendonça said the justices already hold the material they need for the session. He quoted a statement by Fachin that "the gravity of the facts does not allow shortcuts" and added: "It also tolerates no subterfuges or detours toward interests other than those of justice."
The Federal Police contradicted the rapporteur's warning. In a message to Fachin, the force said it has "full technical conditions" to supply copies to every justice's office while preserving the chain of custody, identifying each copy individually and certifying the material's integrity. According to G1, Zanin cited that information in his order.
Zanin's arguments
In the order to the police, Zanin pushed back against Mendonça. He wrote that there is no "hierarchy among the STF justices" and that the evidence belongs to the court's full bench and to all of its members. Zanin said he needs the complete material to form his conviction and judge the case on Tuesday, and noted the content has already been made available to Vorcaro's lawyers.
"No restriction on access to information can be imposed on the judges, since they are all bound by the duty of confidentiality and of performing their functions well, with impartiality and independence," Zanin wrote.
The demand for full access does not come from Zanin alone. According to InfoMoney, Justices Alexandre de Moraes and Gilmar Mendes have also expressed interest in the complete mirror of the device, and the Prosecutor General's office requested the full content to assess the context of the messages. Some of the replies attributed to Moraes were sent through view-once or deleted messaging features, which prevented full recovery of the conversations.
Zanin's order sets the 11 p.m. deadline "without prejudice to other offices that may send identical requests" for the same data. The full bench meets again on Tuesday (15), when it may decide whether there are grounds to open a formal investigation of Moraes.