Overview
- Fresh reporting ties ministers to Banco Master, with Dias Toffoli traveling on a jet with a bank-linked attorney, later taking the case as rapporteur and ordering sweeping secrecy on December 3.
- Estadão reports that Toffoli on December 12 blocked an INSS inquiry from accessing financial and communications records of Banco Master controller Daniel Vorcaro.
- Journalists reported that Viviane Barci de Moraes, wife of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, signed a reported R$129 million contract with Banco Master.
- A survey found Banco Master sponsored six forums and conferences from 2022 to 2025 attended by current and former STF ministers and senior legal officials, intensifying conflict-of-interest concerns.
- Fachin is negotiating a Code of Conduct inspired by the German Constitutional Court and a detailed Fundação FHC proposal, though the STF press office says it has no date to be placed on the agenda.