Second STF group maintains preventive arrests of Daniel Vorcaro's father and cousin The Second Panel of the STF - Federal Supreme Court maintained this Tuesday (16) the preventive arrests of Daniel Vorcaro's father and cousin. Henrique Vorcaro, the banker's father, has been in prison since May, suspected of being Daniel Vorcaro's financial operator and liaising with groups used to break into systems, obtain confidential data and intimidate people. The Federal Police investigation, which had its secrecy lifted this Tuesday (16), pointed to his actions after the arrest of Felipe Mourão, known as Sicário, who committed suicide inside the PF prison in Belo Horizonte. 📱Bookmark g1 on Google and follow the main news of the day The PF states that “after the death of Felipe Mourão, Manoel Mendes Rodrigues" - who, according to the investigation, called militiamen and police officers for criminal actions in Rio de Janeiro, with the knowledge and consent of Henrique Vorcaro - "traveled to Belo Horizonte to meet with the assassin's family, notably his mother and sister, with the aim of avoiding their eventual collaboration with the authorities”. The police representation also mentions that “until the eve of the sixth phase of Operation Compliance Zero, on May 14, 2025, Henrique Vorcaro remained actively acting as a financial operator in favor of the ‘A Turma’ nucleus, based on charges made by the animal game operator Manoel Mendes Rodrigues”. The PF report showed that “Joana Machado de Moraes Mourão, sister of Felipe Mourão, has access to the content stored in the Sicário cloud and constantly states that she has enough material to ‘overturn’ any award-winning collaboration agreement to be made by those being investigated.” Second Panel of the Supreme Court maintains preventive arrests of Daniel Vorcaro's father and cousin National Newspaper/ Reproduction The investigation also showed that Sicário's sister exchanged messages with Vorcaro's group. In one of these messages, Joana told Manoel Rodrigues “that she had just argued with Henrique Vorcaro at that moment, and stated that he would be ‘terrified’, as he ‘knows what she has in her hands’, most likely referring to incriminating elements in her possession”. She also said that she would be willing to expose Henrique Vorcaro, as well as his entire family. The investigators state that "until the moment of Henrique Vorcaro's arrest, Joana maintained contact with the person being investigated in order to collect the amounts owed to Sicário for the services he provided. It should be remembered that Joana stated that she had enough material to incriminate him and that she received threats with photos of rifles, a circumstance that deserves further investigation during the investigations." Hours after the secrecy was removed, the Second Panel of the STF - Federal Supreme Court decided that Henrique Vorcaro and Felipe Cançado Vorcaro, the banker's cousin, would remain in prison. Felipe was arrested on May 7, identified as one of the main financial operators in the scheme. Last week, ministers André Mendonça, rapporteur of the case, and Luiz Fux had already voted in favor of maintaining the prisons. This Tuesday (16), Gilmar Mendes, president of the Second Panel, voted for his father's arrest to be replaced by house arrest, with the use of an electronic ankle monitor and a ban on maintaining contact with those being investigated and witnesses. Gilmar Mendes stated that there is no evidence to prove that Vorcaro's father activated the group that invaded systems and intimidated people after the investigations began. “The police representation fails to indicate elements that indicate that the person being investigated would have appeared, in a contemporary period, as a beneficiary of the alleged illicit services or would have demanded them. Thus, when it is stated, it is proven that Henrique Vorcaro continued to demand services provided by the 'A Turma' nucleus through the retired police officer Marilson Roseno, this conclusion, in my opinion, is not based on direct evidence, but through inferences about deleted calls and messages exchanged between those investigated, of unknown content, taken as indicative of a presumed pattern of concealment and precaution, normally associated with sophisticated criminal structures”, says Minister Gilmar Mendes. Gilmar Mendes also voted to release Felipe Vorcaro. The case's rapporteur, Minister André Mendonça, said that Vorcaro's father was arrested because he committed crimes and continued to commit them, even after the investigations began. Mendonça stated that the Master case is the “biggest financial fraud” in Brazil, with “mafia contours”. “We are here trying the biggest financial fraud in the history of our country. And, if not the biggest, certainly one of the biggest in the world, in history. And this fraud has some peculiarities. It is not simply a white-collar crime. It's more than that. They are not simply actors in an office in Faria Lima, in palaces, who committed fraud and crimes of corruption, money laundering, damage to the national financial system, squandering a fund guaranteeing our country's savings. No. There are mafia outlines here. There are contours of organized mafia crime. With rifles, machine guns, shaved weapons, infiltration of the police system”, says STF minister André Mendonça. Mendonça said that he even received a request for a selective plea bargain from a lawyer - which does not tell everything, choosing targets and omitting information from allies: “A proposal came to me from a lawyer. They have lost their modesty, Minister Gilmar, 'we want to make a selective statement'. They said that to my face. I said: I don't care about denouncing. Now, selective betrayal with me is not the case.” Minister André Mendonça, of the STF National Newspaper/ Reproduction Kassio Nunes Marques cast the decisive vote. He followed the rapporteur and voted to maintain the prisons. The final score was 3 to 1. The majority of the Second Panel voted to maintain the prisons. “I will limit myself and, in a very objective way, to endorsing the arrest decreed by the eminent rapporteur, but trusting, just as I trusted in his excellence in relation to this decree, that, given the request that already exists from the defense in the case, the arguments of the Federal Police, that we need to have this broader access to provide this protection, at an appropriate time, I have absolute conviction that the eminent rapporteur will make this assessment”, says STF minister Kassio Nunes Marques. Henrique Vorcaro's lawyer said that the Federal Police manipulated facts and that he hopes that the defense's statement will be fully accepted by the courts. Felipe Vorcaro's defense stated that, from the beginning, he categorically refutes any conclusions about alleged illicit practices related to Banco Master and that the truth of the facts is already duly documented in the case files. Manoel Mendes Rodrigues' defense stated that his relationship with Henrique Vorcaro's business group was lawful. Jornal Nacional did not locate Joana Mourão's lawyer. GloboPop: click to see videos from the Jornal Nacional stage READ ALSO Vorcaro gave 'privileged treatment' and paid R$468,000 for Ciro Nogueira's trips to NY, Paris and Couchevel, says PF Master Case: Sicário's sister threatened to reveal files capable of 'ending Vorcaro's family', shows PF Sicário, Joana, Manolo: who are the names cited by the PF in new revelations in the Master case Investigators find proof of illegal access to the PF system at Henrique Vorcaro’s house