‘Ideally it would be to start work on Master with Vorcaro’s testimony’, says Calheiros

The president of the Senate’s Economic Affairs Committee (CAE), Renan Calheiros (MDB-AL), stated this Wednesday, 11, that the working group that supervises investigations into Master will request cell phone data from the bank’s owner, Daniel Vorcaro. The senator also defended that the working group begin the testimonies by listening to the banker, but that no date has yet been set.

“For the commission’s work to be productive, I defended this publicly, I think we should start the testimony phases by listening to Vorcaro”, declared Renan, after meeting with the president of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Edson Fachin.

During the conversation, Renan reaffirmed the request for access to investigations into the Master case. “We are going to request all information from the investigations, because there are several investigations, so that we can, with authority, collaborate in holding these people accountable, but fundamentally improve legislation, regulation and supervision itself”, he said.

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The senator said that he discussed, at the meeting, the conversations he had with the president of the Federal Court of Auditors (TCU), Vital do Rêgo, who allegedly suffered political embarrassment for interrupting the body’s measures against the Master.

“I told Minister Fachin about the embarrassing atmosphere at the Federal Court of Auditors. I was there, I spoke in detail with President Vital do Rêgo. Centrão blackmailed a minister of the Court of Auditors so that he could put an end to the liquidation carried out by the Central Bank”, he continued.

The senator stated that the working group will do its “possible” to clarify the case, but that the activities cannot be confused with that of a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI). “We don’t have a police role, but we can play a role in the investigation”, he said.

Renan Calheiros also stated that he will seek out the Attorney General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet, to present the group. In addition to Fachin, Renan has already met with the president of the Central Bank, Gabriel Galípolo, and the general director of the Federal Police, Andrei Rodrigues.