Mendonça orders INSS CPMI to return data on Vorcaro’s breach of confidentiality
The Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) André Mendonça ordered this Friday (6) the opening of an investigation to investigate the leak of information obtained from the breach of confidentiality on the cell phone of businessman Daniel Vorcaro, founder of Banco Master.
Rapporteur of the investigations related to the Master case at the STF, Mendonça also ordered the INSS Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPMI) to return to the Federal Police all data shared with the collegiate following the breach of the banker’s telematic confidentiality.
In the decision, the minister highlighted that access to information protected by secrecy does not authorize its public disclosure by members of a parliamentary committee.
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“Quite the contrary, it gives the authority that received the restricted access information responsibility for maintaining secrecy. This is because, clearly, any breach of secrecy does not make the accessed information public,” wrote Mendonça.
Defense reported leaks
The decision comes after Vorcaro’s defense announced, also this Friday, that it would ask the Supreme Court to open an investigation into what it called “successive leaks” of confidential data.
According to the businessman’s lawyers, excerpts of personal conversations taken from the banker’s cell phone began to circulate in the press and on social networks, including references to authorities.
In a statement, the defense stated that it did not even have full access to the content obtained in the breach of confidentiality before the disclosure of parts of the messages.
Contacts with authorities
Analysis of data from Vorcaro’s cell phone revealed that the businessman maintained telephone contacts with several public authorities and members of the financial system.
Among the names identified are three ministers of the Federal Supreme Court, parliamentarians from the National Congress, two directors of the Central Bank — the body responsible for supervising the banking system — and people linked to the Judiciary.
Lawyer Viviane de Moraes, wife of minister Alexandre de Moraes, also appears on the list.
The material is part of the investigations related to the crisis involving Banco Master and the investigations carried out within the scope of Operation Compliance Zero, which examines suspected financial fraud and irregularities in the capital market.
