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Nov 10, 2026
Federal Police shake-up puts Banco Master inquiry under sharper scrutiny
The Federal Police’s decision to remove two senior investigators has intensified attention on the Banco Master inquiry: one account stresses their work involving Supreme Court contacts, while another focuses on the case’s unresolved evidence and pending report to the court.
Brazil’s Federal Police has moved to remove delegates Daniel Cola and Wedson Cajé from leadership posts in the unit handling corruption, financial-crime and money-laundering investigations. The formal acts had not yet appeared in the Official Gazette, and it was not immediately clear whether the pair would remain assigned to the Banco Master case itself.1
Accounts from across the political media spectrum agree on the core development: Cola and Cajé had coordinated work connected to alleged financial irregularities involving the former Banco Master and its former controller, Daniel Vorcaro. A separate report says the change followed a restructuring of the division responsible for investigations before higher courts; it adds that Federal Police director-general Andrei Rodrigues will name replacements after the dismissals are formalized.2
The sharper disagreement lies in what the reshuffle signifies. One report foregrounds the delegates’ role in preparing material that identified more than 300 interactions between Vorcaro and Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. It says the material included requests for help from Vorcaro, while Moraes denied acting to benefit the bank.1
The other account places greater weight on the unfinished institutional process. Supreme Court president Edson Fachin is awaiting a Federal Police report identifying every justice mentioned in the evidence, particularly material extracted from Vorcaro’s phone. The report, expected in early November, had not been delivered; Cola and Cajé were assigned to prepare it.2
That account also notes that police had indicted Vorcaro, a former Banco de Brasília president and 13 others in one stage of the case, citing suspected transactions involving credit portfolios of disputed origin, subsequent document production and alleged concealment of ownership and fund movements. Investigators said further steps remained, including banking, tax and asset analyses.2
Commentator Rodrigo Constantino offered a far more accusatory interpretation on X, writing: “The mafia protects itself: the Federal Police removes investigators from the Master case.”
3 The available reports, however, do not establish a reason for the personnel changes beyond the reported restructuring and pending administrative process.