Report From Rio: Chats Implicate Judge De Moraes with Imprisoned Banker
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The messages indicate enough intimacy for the banker—then under investigation, now imprisoned—to consult the judge if it was time to flee Brazil. “Do you think I have to be out of [the country] on Monday?” the owner of the Master Bank, now in pretrial detention for a colossal fraud, asked the Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes, two days before being arrested in November 2025. It is unknown what Moraes replied, but, in fact, that Monday nigh…
Revealed messages between Judge Alexandre de Moraes and imprisoned banker Daniel Vorcaro have reignited the Banco Master scandal in Brazil. Vorcaro, detained for multimillion-dollar fraud, asked the judge to intervene with authorities to halt the investigations and prevent his arrest. De Moraes was the judge who convicted Jair Bolsonaro for attempted coup. From Rio de Janeiro, our correspondent Valeria Saccone has more details.
Alexandre de Moraes, the magistrate who convicted Jair Bolsonaro, is accused of ties with Daniel Vorcaro, accused of a million-dollar fraud.The case stirs up the electoral campaign in Brazil, a month before the presidential campaign in which Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro compete almost head-to-head.
The worsening situation of the Minister of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) Alexandre Moraes in the scandal of the Master Bank is another bad news for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the race for re-election and, by table, good news for Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ). Read more: In the imaginary of public opinion is sedimented the impression that Moraes is an ally of Lula. This impression, which took flight after the performance of Morae…
He's tied up with a banker who's currently in jail for scam.
The influential judge of the Supreme Court of Brazil Alexandre de Moraes was put under pressure this Tuesday after the publication of messages sent to him by a banker imprisoned on suspicion of a vast plot of corruption, in the days leading up to his arrest.
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