{
  "id": 5175106,
  "title": "A Brazilian Supreme Court justice lifts secrecy on a banker's messages to another judge",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/a-brazilian-supreme-court-justice-lifts-secrecy-on-a-bankers-messages",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-02T20:56:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MercoPress",
    "slug": "mercopress",
    "url": "https://en.mercopress.com/2026/09/02/a-brazilian-supreme-court-justice-lifts-secrecy-on-a-banker-s-messages-to-another-judge"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Supreme Court justice André Mendonça has ordered the secrecy lifted on a report containing over two hundred pages of messages exchanged between businessman Daniel Vorcaro and fellow justice Alexandre de Moraes. The report, recovered by forensic examiners from Vorcaro's phone, includes 52 files showing the businessman's communications via WhatsApp in view-once mode, which leaves no trace. Vorcaro, currently in pre-trial detention, wrote messages just days before his arrest in November 2025, asking if he should leave the country the following Monday. He also suggested pressuring the head of the Federal Police and prosecutor general to prevent \"outrageous\" actions. The report details meetings between Vorcaro and Moraes in Brasília and São Paulo between 2024 and 2025, including one at Vorcaro's home. The couple maintains Moraes reviewed the document but denies editing it. Operation Compliance Zero is investigating a 12 billion reais fraud involving frozen assets worth 22 billion, with public pension funds among the affected. Mendonça plans to take the case to the court's full bench, regardless of the Prosecutor General's decision. The Brazilian Bar Association has expressed \"extreme concern\" over the situation, occurring five weeks before the presidential elections on October 4. Moraes, who oversaw the case convicting former president Jair Bolsonaro, faces calls from candidate Flávio Bolsonaro for him to resign.",
  "summary": "Brazilian Supreme Court justice André Mendonça, rapporteur in the Banco Master case, on Tuesday lifted the secrecy order on a Federal Police report of more than two hundred pages containing messages sent by businessman Daniel Vorcaro, the bank's owner and currently in pre-trial detention, to his fellow justice Alexandre de Moraes.",
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  "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."
}