Minister Dias Toffoli, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), ordered this Wednesday (24) the holding of a confrontation hearing with the partner of the Master BankDaniel Vorcaro, the former president of the Bank of Brasília (BRB), Paulo Henrique Costa and the director of Inspection at the Central Bank, Ailton de Aquino.
They will be heard on December 30th, at 2pm, via videoconference. The measure is part of the investigation process into financial fraud that may have generated R$17 billion through the issuance of false credit titles.
The accused have been investigated by the Federal Police since 2024, within the scope of Operation Compliance Zerolaunched on November 18, 2025. At the time, Vocaro was arrestedat Guarulhos Airport (SP), one day after Fictor Holding Financeira announced that it would buy Master, after the financial institution had been extrajudicially liquidated.
Vocaro’s partners, Augusto Ferreira Lima, Luiz Antonio Bull, Alberto Feliz de Oliveira and Angelo Antonio Ribeiro da Silva, were also arrested. All were authorized by the Federal Court to respond freely with monitoring by electronic ankle bracelet and are prohibited from carrying out activities in the financial sector, from having contact with other people under investigation and from leaving the country.
Tofffoli is the rapporteur of the case at the STF, which is being processed in secrecy, after the minister’s decision to accept Vorcaro’s defense request for the case to be handled by the Court and no longer in the Federal Court in Brasília. The change was justified by a quote from a federal deputy, who has a privileged jurisdiction.
