The Attorney General’s Office requested the suspension of the confrontation with those being investigated in the Master Bank case. The minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Dias Toffoli, however, denied the request and kept the hearing scheduled for next Tuesday (30).
This Wednesday (24), Toffoli ordered the holding of a face-to-face hearing with the partner of Banco Master, Daniel Vorcaro, the former president of Banco de Brasília (BRB) Paulo Henrique Costa and the director of Inspection at the Central Bank, Ailton de Aquino. They will be heard 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. On that occasion, Vorcaro was arrested at Guarulhos Airport (SP), one day after Fictor Holding Financeira announced that it would buy Master, after the financial institution had been extrajudicially liquidated.
Vorcaro’s partners were also arrested – Augusto Ferreira Lima, Luiz Antonio Bull, Alberto Feliz de Oliveira and Angelo Antonio Ribeiro da Silva. All were authorized by the Federal Court to respond freelywith monitoring by an 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.
