Brazilian Supreme Court Justice André Mendonça ordered the Federal Police to provide the “full record of all existing messages and interactions” between former banker Daniel Bueno Vorcaro and members of his alleged influence network, according to CNN Brasil. The order led the police to send the court a report identifying contacts between Vorcaro and Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
Mendonça also reaffirmed that investigators must preserve the separation, or “compartmentalization,” of evidence gathered in the inquiry. CNN Brasil reported that the decision was interpreted within the police as barring the agency’s senior leadership from accessing the case files.
The restriction was seen internally as a message to Federal Police Director-General Andrei Rodrigues, according to the report. Mendonça and Rodrigues are facing disagreements over the handling of investigations involving alleged fraud at Brazil’s National Social Security Institute and Fábio Luís Lula da Silva, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s son, who is known as Lulinha.
What the Police Report Says
The 218-page report identifies Mendonça’s request in its opening section. It says the document provides information on the current stage of the investigation known as Operation Compliance Zero, particularly efforts to identify people connected to the alleged influence network and monitoring operation managed by Vorcaro.
The police said the material includes the identification of people who participated in or were mentioned in the messages reproduced in the report. It also warned that some references involve public officials with special jurisdiction. Under the report’s account, those individuals can be investigated only with authorization from the full Supreme Court.
The document then describes the process used to identify telephone users associated with numbers found in Vorcaro’s extracted cellphone data. One number, partially obscured in the report, was linked to a contact saved as “Alexandre de Moraes BRASILIA.”
“The next step was to identify the users assigned to the respective telephone terminals cited,” the police wrote, according to CNN Brasil.
The report said the contact name was found in Vorcaro’s phone. The material, as presented in the source, does not establish the content or purpose of the communications, nor does it state that the contact name alone proves who used the number at the time.
Single-Source Reporting
The account is based on single-source reporting from CNN Brasil. The source describes Mendonça’s order, the police report and the internal interpretation of the access restriction, but does not include responses from Mendonça, Rodrigues, Moraes, Vorcaro or their representatives.