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Mendonça calls for judiciary to honor public trust amid crisis involving Moraes

From Folha de S.Paulo · () Portuguese

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  • Supreme Federal Court Justice André Mendonça called on judicial representatives to honor the public’s trust during a ceremony involving religious leaders.
  • His remarks came after a Federal Police report disclosed messages involving Justice Alexandre de Moraes and former Banco Master banker Daniel Vorcaro, triggering a major crisis at the court.
  • Mendonça, who made the report public, asked Chief Justice Edson Fachin to bring the messages before the full court, while reports also detailed Mendonça’s own meeting with Vorcaro and contacts linked to the banker.

Two days after messages involving Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes and former Banco Master banker Daniel Vorcaro became public, Justice André Mendonça spoke of the need to preserve public confidence in Brazil’s legal system.

“May we honor the trust that the most important party, the people, the citizen, places in us,” Mendonça said during a Superior Electoral Court event with religious leaders. He also asked God to bless judicial representatives and the justice system.

The remarks came as the Supreme Court faced what the report described as an unprecedented crisis. Mendonça is the rapporteur for the Banco Master case and was responsible for making public a Federal Police report detailing exchanges between Moraes and Vorcaro. In one disclosed conversation, Vorcaro asked Moraes whether he should leave Brazil two days before his arrest in November 2025.

May God bless us on this side of the table as well, and everyone who represents the Judiciary, especially the justice system as a whole. May we honor the trust that the most important party, the people, the citizen, places in us.

· André MendonçaThe Supreme Court justice spoke during a Superior Electoral Court event as the court faced a crisis over disclosed messages.

The report also pointed to messages sent to Vorcaro that allegedly came from Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet. After releasing the report, Mendonça asked Supreme Court President Edson Fachin to have the messages discussed by the full court, with all justices taking part.

The disclosures also drew attention to Mendonça’s own contact with Vorcaro. The justice received the then-banker at the Institute Iter, which Mendonça founded, to discuss court-ordered debt payments, a subject before the Supreme Court that interested Banco Master. In a statement, Mendonça said he had voted against the businessman’s interests in the case.

ICL Notícias also reported that messages taken from Vorcaro’s phone indicated that his associate, lawyer Ciro Rocha Soares, had taken Mendonça to buy a suit. In an audio message to Vorcaro, Ciro said he had influenced the justice by discussing Banco Master’s problems with Brazil’s central bank.

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· Ciro Rocha SoaresIn an audio message to Vorcaro, the lawyer reportedly used this word to describe his claimed influence on Mendonça.
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Originally published by Folha de S.Paulo in Portuguese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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