Toffoli authorizes the resumption of investigations into the Banco Master affair

BRASILIA – The Minister of Federal Court (STF) Caramel days determined this Monday 15, the resumption of investigations targeting the financial fraud scheme of Main bank with new steps. In this order, he requests that the officers and directors of the Central Bank who are the subject of the investigation be questioned.

He also authorized the delegate in charge of the case to ask the defendants, upon justification, for measures such as violations of tax and telematic secrecy. “Hearings may be conducted by videoconference or in person in any of the courtrooms located in this Supreme Court, and must be recorded and monitored by the deputy magistrates in my office.”

Actions aimed at investigating the alleged issuance of 12 billion reais in fictitious credits were 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 latest decision, Judge Solange Salgado da Silva, of the Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region, had interrupted the preventive detention of the president of the Master, Daniel Vorcaroappointed as project architect.

According to the magistrate, alternative measures, such as the obligation to use electronic ankle bracelets and the ban on communication between those under investigation, were “sufficient to, currently, protect the social environment, prevent a possible repetition of the crime, guarantee economic order, guarantee the regular pursuit of criminal proceedings and limit the risks of escape”.

The decision also benefited the leaders Augusto Ferreira Lima, Luiz Antônio Bull, Alberto Felix de Oliveira Neto and Ângelo Antônio Ribeiro da Silva. Their passports were confiscated and they were prohibited from leaving the cities where they reside without authorization from the Court.