Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), denied this Tuesday (27) having participated in a meeting with the former president of Banco de Brasília (BRB) Paulo Henrique Costa, in the first half of 2025, at the home of banker Daniel Vorcaro, owner of Banco Master. 
Earlier, the supposed meeting was reported by Portal Metrópoles and would have occurred amid the process of attempting to purchase Master by BRB.
In a press release, Moraes classified the report as “false and a lie”.
“The Portal Metrópoles article about an alleged meeting between minister Alexandre de Moraes, accompanied by an advisor, with the then president of BRB, Paulo Henrique Costa, on a weekend in the first half of 2025, at the house of banker Daniel Vorcaro, is false and untrue. This meeting did not take place and, regrettably, follows a criminal pattern of disqualified attacks against members of the Federal Supreme Court”, says the note.
The minister’s name was also involved in other episodes involving the bank. At the end of last year, the newspaper O Globo published a report in which it stated that Moraes had defended the approval of the purchase operation during meetings with the president of the Central Bank, Gabriel Galípolo. The meetings would have taken place before the BC’s decision that decreed the liquidation of Master due to suspicions of fraud.
At the time, the minister said that the meetings dealt exclusively with the Magnitsky Act, which was applied by the United States government against him.
Before the liquidation, the law firm Barci de Moraes, which belongs to the minister’s family, provided services to Master. In December last year, the investigation into Banco Master began to be processed by the STF.
In November 2025, banker Daniel Vorcaro and other defendants were the target of Operation Compliance Zero, launched by the Federal Police (PF) to investigate the granting of false credits by Master, including the attempted purchase of the financial institution by BRB, a public bank linked to the Federal District government.
According to investigations, fraud could reach R$17 billion.
