TSE orders suspension of Lula's electoral propaganda that says Flávio Bolsonaro is being investigated in the Master case

The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) ordered the immediate suspension of an electoral advertisement broadcast by the campaign of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) which says that Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) is being investigated for corruption and money laundering in the Banco Master case.

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) will contest the second round of the presidential elections on October 25th.

Flávio is being investigated by the Federal Police (PF) in an open inquiry to investigate the possible commission of crimes related to the financing by Daniel Vorcaro, owner of Master, in the production of the film 'Dark Horse', about the trajectory of former president Jair Bolsonaro.

The content also states that Flávio's deputy, Alfredo Gaspar, is the target of investigation for rape of a vulnerable person. The request to open an investigation was shelved due to a lack of elements to support the complaint.

In the decision, the president of the TSE, minister Nunes Marques, states that the propaganda brings 'criminal accusations devoid of minimum support, in a communication space of national reach and paid for by society'.

'Admitting the use of free electoral hours for this purpose would mean converting an instrument designed to ensure equal opportunities between competitors amid an imbalance in the dispute itself', says the minister.

Master Case

According to the decision, the PF investigates suspicions of money laundering, currency evasion, corruption and other possible crimes that would have been committed, in theory, by Flávio Bolsonaro in the context of financing the film together with Daniel Vorcaro, owner of the now extinct Banco Master.

The Federal Police received a request to open an investigation against Alfredo Gaspar, following suspicions of rape of a vulnerable person involving senator Soraya Thronicke and deputy Lindbergh Farias. Minister Gilmar Mendes, from the STF, ordered the investigation to be archived due to a lack of elements to support the complaint.

The Attorney General's Office (PGR) had already expressed its rejection of the request to open an investigation.

Film financing

The film 'Dark Horse' gained notoriety after the publication, by the website Intercept Brasil, of conversations between Flávio Bolsonaro and Daniel Vorcaro, in which the former president's son requests resources to finance film production.

The banker helped finance the film, and negotiations involved direct contact with the former president's eldest son, who asked for money and pressed for payments.

Vorcaro even paid R$61 million to the film's producers, via funds in the United States.

In total, Flávio Bolsonaro would have negotiated the transfer of US$24 million, around R$134 million at the time, to finance production.

R$75.1 million - the amount the producer says it spent;

R$61 million - the amount that Daniel Vorcaro would have allocated to the film via funds in the USA;

R$134 million - the amount that Flávio Bolsonaro would have negotiated before Vorcaro was arrested;

R$ 108 million - value of the contract between Karina da Gama's NGO and the City of SP for the installation of Wi-Fi in the capital of São Paulo.