Minister Dias Toffoli, of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), rejected the request of the Attorney General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet, and maintained the confrontation within the framework of the Banco Master investigation, scheduled for Tuesday (30/12). The minister wants to hear from the president of Banco Master, Daniel Vorcaro, the former president of Banco de Brasília (BRB) Paulo Henrique Costa and the director of the Central Bank Inspection, Ailton de Aquino Santos.
Toffoli’s decision was made on Wednesday evening (12/24), about two hours after Gonet sent the suspension request to the Supreme Court. The process takes place in secret.
The confrontation aims to clarify the differences between the cores of the case, as well as the circumstances under which the frauds investigated may have occurred.
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Master: Toffoli determines a confrontation between Vorcaro, former president of the BRB and director of the BC
Confrontation
The procedure must take place by videoconference. This legal instrument is used by the judge, at the request of investigators, when there are contradictions or possible omissions in the testimonies of those investigated in a case.
The objective is to compare the versions of the alleged fraud of 12.2 billion reais in the failed sale of Master to Banco de Brasília.
Transaction
Ailton de Aquino Santos participated in meetings between then-BRB President Paulo Henrique Costa; Daniel Vorcaro; and the President of the Central Bank, Gabiel Galípolo. During the meetings, the transaction involved the purchase of Master by Banco de Brasília (BRB).
The explanations given in the presence of the BC director focused on the formalities and composition of the bank, given that it was planned to sell assets to other institutions.
BRB announced its intention to acquire control of Banco Master in March this year. However, the operation gave rise to suspicions of risk. After several meetings, the Central Bank refused the purchase due to lack of economic viability and risks.
Even after the veto, the BRB bought back Master’s credit portfolios. The evidence pointed to by the federal police is the use of accounting engineering to hide irregularities. Signs point to a 12.2 billion reais fraud in the financial system.
In November, the Central Bank decreed the extrajudicial liquidation of Banco Master due to suspicions of issuing false bonds and risks for the SFN, affecting customers and workers.
TCU and regulations
On December 18, the Minister of the Federal Court of Auditors (TCU), Jhonatan de Jesus, ordered the Central Bank (CB) to comment on the alleged signs of haste in the liquidation of Banco Master, owned by businessman Daniel Vorcaro. The article was published by the Tácio Lorran section of Metropoles.
Banco Master’s defense then informed Jhonatan de Jesus that the Central Bank was trying to obtain new documents from Master’s facilities, databases and systems that help reinforce the “extreme decision” to liquidate Master.
In the request, the lawyers assert that “it is not up to the BCB to ask the liquidator to carry out investigative work or to collect documents to instruct the authority’s procedures or the answers it must give to the judicial or control bodies”.
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