The minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Dias Toffoli, determined this Wednesday (14) that all material seized about the Banco Master case in the new phase of Operation Compliance Zero, triggered earlier by the Federal Police (PF),be forwarded to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), for extraction and analysis of the evidence set.
The decision responds to a request made by the head of the PGR himself, Paulo Gonet, when analyzing a request for reconsideration by the PF on the order for the custody of materials at the Supreme Court, as Toffoli had previously determined.
“In view of the success of the operation carried out today, the evidentiary material collected must be assessed by the holder of the criminal action for the appropriate formation of the ministerial opinion on the materiality and authorship of the crimes under investigation”, ordered the STF minister.
Still in the decision, Toffoli determined that the seized devices be kept disconnected from telephone and internet networks, to guarantee their integrity until inspection.
THE The new phase of the operation launched this Wednesday included the temporary arrest of Fabiano Campos Zettel, brother-in-law of the owner of Banco Master, Daniel Vorcaroand the blocking of R$5.7 billion in goods. 42 search and seizure warrants were executed in five states.
In addition to Zettel’s arrest, The subject of search warrants was businessman Nelson Tanure, manager of funds linked to Master, and investor João Carlos Mansur, former president of the management company Reag Investimentos.
According to investigations, they are suspected of embezzling resources from the financial system to supply personal assets. Several cars and other luxury items were also seized, as well as more than R$90,000 in cash.
The operation aims to interrupt the activities of the alleged criminal organization, in addition to recovering assets.
Arrested in November by the PF, while trying to board his private jet abroad, at Guarulhos International Airport, Daniel Vorcaro had his arrest relaxed and is under house arrest.
In the order determining the sending of evidence to the PGR, the Minister Dias Toffoli states that the current investigation at the STF has a broader scope than previous investigations indicated“to the extent that, in theory, it would have revealed that funds were operated for fraudulent management, misappropriation of values and money laundering by Banco Master in a context of alleged systematic exploitation of vulnerabilities in the capital market and the regulation and supervision system”.
According to the minister, the Analysis of the evidence by the PGR will allow the body to “have a systemic view of the alleged major crimes it has, in theory, identified to date”.
