The Minister of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes informed Tuesday evening (23), through a note published by the Court, that he held two meetings in his office with the President of the Central Bank (BC), Gabriel Galípolo, to discuss the effects of the application of the Magnistiky Law. According to the memo, no issues were discussed or pressure applied regarding the acquisition negotiation between BRB and Banco Master. He also denied it happened over the phone.
This is the second note published by Moraes this Tuesday. The first did not explicitly deny having spoken to Galípolo about the Master’s case.
The positions were released after the newspaper “O Globo” revealed that he had met with Galípolo to speak in favor of Banco Master. Previous reports also showed that his wife, lawyer Viviane Barci de Moraes, was hired by the institution to provide services for around 130 million reais.
According to columnist Malu Gaspar, of “O Globo”, the contacts with Galípolo took place in July, therefore before the arrest of the banker Daniel Vorcaro and the decree of British Columbia the extrajudicial liquidation of Banco Master, in November. The minister reportedly told the BC president that he liked Vorcaro and that Master opposed it because it was taking space from the big banks. Moraes reportedly asked the BC to approve the deal with BRB.
Also according to the report, Galípolo responded to Moraes that BC technicians had discovered fraud in the transfer of 12.2 billion reais of Master credits to the BRB. Given this information, according to the O Globo publication, the minister said that, if fraud was proven, there would be no way to approve the agreement.
“Minister Alexandre de Moraes specifies that he held, in his office, two meetings with the President of the Central Bank to discuss the effects of the application of the Magnistiki law,” indicates the second note published by the Supreme Court, adding that the first meeting took place on August 14, after the first application of the law. And the second meeting on September 30, after the application of the sanction of the American government against his wife.
“In none of the meetings was any issue discussed or pressure exerted regarding the acquisition of BRB by Banco Master,” the note said. “He also specifies that he has never been to the Central Bank and that there have been no telephone calls between them, for this or for any other matter. Finally, he specifies that his wife’s law firm never acted in the BRB-Master acquisition operation before the Central Bank.”
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