Toffoli authorizes resumption of investigations into the Banco Master case
The Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Dias Toffoli ordered this Monday, 15th, the resumption of investigations targeting Banco Master’s financial fraud scheme with new steps. In the order, he requests that the investigated executives and directors of the Central Bank be interviewed.
He also authorized the delegate responsible for the case to request measures such as breaches of tax and telematic secrecy from the defendants upon justification. “The hearings may take place via videoconference or in person in one of the hearing rooms located in this Supreme Court, and must be recorded and monitored by the assistant magistrates from my office.”
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The actions to investigate the alleged issuance of R$12 billion in fictitious credits had been paralyzed since the financial institution’s defense filed a request, accepted by Toffoli, to submit all decisions of the first instance courts to the STF. In the last decision, judge Solange Salgado da Silva, from the Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region, had interrupted the preventive detention of the president of Master, Daniel Vorcaro, appointed as the architect of the scheme.
According to the judge, alternative measures, such as requiring the use of electronic ankle bracelets and the prohibition of communication between those being investigated, were “sufficient to, currently, protect the social environment, prevent possible repetition of the crime, guarantee economic order, guarantee the regular continuation of criminal prosecution and curb the risk of escape”.
The decision also benefited executives Augusto Ferreira Lima, Luiz Antônio Bull, Alberto Felix de Oliveira Neto and Ângelo Antônio Ribeiro da Silva. They had their passports confiscated and were prohibited from leaving the cities where they live without authorization from the Court.
