{
  "id": 4679114,
  "title": "Inside Brazil’s Biggest-Ever Bank Fraud: The Banco Master Scandal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/inside-brazils-biggest-ever-bank-fraud-the-banco-master-scandal",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-31T15:33:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Rio Times",
    "slug": "the-rio-times",
    "url": "https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-banco-master-scandal/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Brazil: Banco Master Scandal Key Facts —Scale. The Central Bank ordered Banco Master’s extrajudicial liquidation on November 18, 2025. Around 1.6 million creditors held roughly R$41 billion in FGC-guaranteed instruments at Master alone; including the related Will Bank and Banco Pleno failures, the deposit-guarantee bill approaches R$52 billion — the largest in Brazilian history. —Mechanism. […]…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}