Brazil’s Federal Police has removed delegates Daniel Cola and Wedson Cajé from leadership posts in the unit responsible for corruption, financial-crime and money-laundering investigations. The move affects the structure handling inquiries into alleged fraud involving the former Banco Master, though removal from administrative roles does not automatically mean they are off the case.¹

The two accounts agree on the immediate backdrop: Cola and Cajé were involved in preparing material concerning contacts between Daniel Vorcaro, the bank’s former controller, and Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. One report says the team identified more than 300 interactions and sent the material to the court under an order from Justice André Mendonça. It says the messages included Vorcaro requests for help, while Moraes denied acting to benefit the bank.¹

They were also preparing a separate report requested by Supreme Court President Edson Fachin, intended to identify justices mentioned in evidence gathered in the investigation and describe the relevant facts. The report had not yet reached Fachin’s office, according to the same account.¹

A second report frames the leadership change more pointedly. It says the planned survey of Supreme Court members was the “trigger” for replacing the delegates, and that the document displeased figures at the court and Federal Police Director-General Andrei Rodrigues.² Sources familiar with the matter told the outlet that some within the force viewed the decision as “retaliation against the delegates’ technical work.”²

That interpretation remains an account from internal sources rather than an official finding. The available reporting does not establish whether Cola and Cajé will formally leave the Banco Master inquiries, but it places the personnel decision amid a sensitive institutional dispute over how far the investigation’s findings should reach.¹