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24 statements · 1 politicians · March 4, 2026
Statements by Sérgio Moro. 24 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Judiciary, Combating Impunity, Financial Regulation & Transparency, Organized Crime.
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Good afternoon everyone, fellow Senators, and acting President.
Today we cannot fail to address this matter: Vorcaro's arrest.
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About: keep suspects in preventive detention during investigations
The owner of Banco Master had preventive detention ordered by Minister André Mendonça, who has done great work at the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) and made a courageous decision.
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About: keep suspects in preventive detention during investigations
I confess that when I read the terms of the decision I was surprised, because I have always understood and argued in the past that Daniel Vorcaro should already be imprisoned.
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About: investigate irregularities and transfers involving Banco Master
After all, there are evidentiary elements still being investigated indicating that he would be responsible for a financial fraud of more than R$40 billion, and that's speaking only of the loss caused to the guarantee fund.
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About: investigate losses to the National Financial System
I do not recall a loss so large for the National Financial System, even in previous shortfalls and the liquidations of financial institutions.
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About: investigate coordinated attacks on the Central Bank and institutional manipulation
However, evidence also emerged, back then, that he had paid social media influencers to carry out a coordinated attack on the Central Bank so that the institutions would not be able to operate and do their work regarding the intervention and liquidation at Banco Master.
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About: investigate links between people and the PCC
But when I read the terms of the decision, I come to the conclusion that the picture is even worse, because the messages exchanged by him with his — I was going to say accomplices, but given the content of the messages they are henchmen — are staggering.
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About: investigate threats and violence against workers and witnesses
Suggesting, for example, in relation to one of his employees, quote: "Daniel Vorcaro has to beat that bitch to a pulp."
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About: investigate and protect journalists against threats and violence
Regarding the journalist who bothers him with publications — and here there is a possibility it is Lauro Jardim, possibly Malu Gaspar — he suggests, also in quotes, "simulate a robbery, break all his teeth, beat him with a stick."
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About: establish a CPI to investigate organized crime
We are seeing gangsterism here, Senator Seif; it further justifies assigning the CPI (Parliamentary Inquiry Commission) on Organized Crime to investigate these facts.
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About: investigate illegal espionage and cooptation of public officials
It is not only white-collar crime; the decision is full of references to illegal espionage of opponents, the co-option of public agents to obtain information and to manipulate proceedings.
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About: investigate and protect journalists against threats and violence
And now we have the purest gangsterism, the suggestion of violence against potential witnesses and against journalists, placing the free press under threat.
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About: investigate financial transactions between suspects and members of the Judiciary
As if that were not enough — and the whole country was informed of this — this individual, Daniel Vorcaro, maintained million-dollar financial transactions with a company controlled by Minister Dias Toffoli of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal).
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About: order preventive detention of suspects of financial crimes
This individual's network of influence is enormous, and, at the right time, preventive detention was ordered and he was taken into custody.
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About: proceed with investigations and evidence collection
Perhaps now we may have more normal developments in this case, since the source, perhaps the one that was preventing a regular collection of evidence, has been taken into custody.
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About: investigate and prosecute members of PCC and Comando Vermelho
The situation here is typical of organized crime.
I was a judge for 22 years and, although I had cases involving white-collar crimes, I also had proceedings against gangs of drug traffickers, leaders of organized criminal groups.
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About: investigate links between companies and criminal organizations
This method of hiring henchmen to eliminate or intimidate opponents is typical of leaders of drug trafficking gangs, and here we see a banker carrying out these actions!
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About: keep suspects in preventive detention during investigations
It is necessary here to highlight, then, the courage of Minister André Mendonça, always very serene, very calm.
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About: keep suspects in preventive detention during investigations
When I saw the news of that ordering of preventive detention, I immediately thought: "The facts must be very serious, since preventive detention is exceptional and since Minister André Mendonça is a Minister who acts with great serenity and caution," but anyone who reads this decision promptly agrees with the measure that was taken.
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About: resume and strengthen anti-corruption operations as an investigative tool
Perhaps, from this drastic measure, we can begin again to clarify various facts that haunt this Republic and perhaps we can also cleanse this Republic — a work that was begun in Operation Lava Jato, which, however, was later dismantled for political reasons, solely with the objective of allowing not only impunity to return but, as is revealed by the scandal of the theft from INSS retirees and pensioners and likewise by the Banco Master scandal, for thievery to return.
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About: ensure equal application of the law to all citizens
No one in a Republic should be above the law, not even a banker with powerful connections.
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About: establish a CPI to investigate organized crime
We will await developments, but on my part, in the CPI (Parliamentary Inquiry Commission) on Organized Crime and also in the CPMI on the INSS, we will carry out our work, inspired by the courage of Minister André Mendonça.
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