Messages from Daniel Vorcaro reveal that he saw Fernando Haddad as one of his biggest opponents

Brasília Messages extracted from Daniel Vorcaro's cell phone show that the owner of Banco Master considered former Finance Minister Fernando Haddad, current candidate for the Government of São Paulo for the PT, one of his "biggest opponents".

The conversation took place in October last year, less than a month before he was arrested, between the former banker and lawyer Vanessa Souza. The content of the conversation was initially published by the newspaper O Globo and confirmed by Folha.

At the time, the Central Bank was evaluating the attempted sale of Master to BRB (Banco de Brasília). After Vorcaro's first arrest, on November 17, the BC decreed the Master's extrajudicial liquidation.

In the conversation, the lawyer says that she is having lunch with Haddad's lawyer and asks: "Did you abort the issue of selling the bank, that problem at the Central Bank?"

Vorcaro replies: "The topic is much deeper, I'll tell you tonight. And Haddad is one of my biggest opponents. Unfortunately, because I don't even know him, I know him."

The Master's owner had already been trying to get a meeting with Haddad at least since the previous year, the messages show.

In another conversation obtained by Folha, from August 2024, consultant Júlio Cezar, who managed to organize a Vorcaro dinner with minister Alexandre Padilha (at the time in the Secretariat of Institutional Relations, now in Health) also tries to reach an agenda with the head of the Treasury.

Vorcaro's conversations were accessed by the Federal Police on the device that was seized from the former banker last year. The material was sent to the offices of ministers of the STF (Supreme Federal Court).