Overview
- Chief Justice Luiz Edson Fachin ordered on Thursday the wider unsealing of thousands of pages from the Banco Master probe and scheduled a full‑court session to consider whether Justice Alexandre de Moraes should be investigated.
- The released records include dozens of messages police say were sent by jailed banker Daniel Vorcaro to a phone linked to de Moraes, which prompted calls for an unprecedented probe of a sitting Supreme Court justice.
- Documents also show a separate Supreme Court investigation into presidential candidate Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro over roughly 61 million reais allegedly provided by Vorcaro to finance a biopic about his father.
- Federal police executed dozens of raids this week targeting people tied to the film’s production and seized records while several subjects were barred from leaving Brazil as investigators trace payments.
- The clash between Justices André Mendonça and Alexandre de Moraes has produced reciprocal accusations, forced Fachin’s intervention, and raised fresh concerns that the dispute could erode judicial credibility and influence the Oct. 4 election.