Entrepreneur Daniel Vorcaro, owner of Banco Master, was detained by the Federal Police (PF) on March 4, 2026, in the third phase of Operation Compliance Zero. The action was authorized by Supreme Federal Court (STF) minister André Mendonça and is part of investigations involving the bank.
Vorcaro had already been arrested previously on November 17, 2025, when trying to board a flight to Dubai. Since then, he has been under intense surveillance by the PF, which discovered that he attended an unregistered meeting at the Planalto Palace on December 4, 2023, along with Lucas Prado Kallas.
In addition to the informal meeting, Vorcaro accessed the Planalto Palace four more times between December 2023 and 2024, all without any public agenda disclosed. Among these visits, the meeting of Daniel’s father, Henrique Vorcaro, with authorities at the same location stands out on November 6, 2024.
The entrepreneur was also at the Palace on March 1 and April 3, 2024, again without official entry records. On the April 3 access, the government leader in the Senate, Jaques Wagner, also entered the Planalto without this being officially declared, according to findings.
Vorcaro is represented by lawyer Viviane Barci de Moraes in a legal consultancy valued at R$ 129 million. She is the wife of Supreme Federal Court minister Alexandre de Moraes and, since February 2026, also defends Lucas Prado Kallas, involved in the investigations.
Messages found on Daniel Vorcaro’s cellphone indicate his connection to procedures involving minister Dias Toffoli, also of the STF. The material is part of the set of evidence underpinning the developments of the operation.
Profile, Activities, and Connections of Lucas Prado Kallas
Lucas Prado Kallas is an entrepreneur in the mining sector and maintains partnerships with Daniel Vorcaro in various companies. However, he appears in at least four police operations, both federal and state, related to the illegal extraction of minerals, with developments involving environmental damage and suspicions of fraud in public contracts. These investigations took place in different states and gained national attention.
Kallas was also mentioned in the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPI) that analyzed the collapse of Vale’s dam in Brumadinho, due to close ties to the monitoring activities of the structure. Furthermore, information circulates about an investment estimated at 50 million dollars, applied in consultancies and services linked to the oil sector in Venezuela, a claim Kallas denies. Overall, this case gained attention for involving financial operations crossing borders.
A relevant aspect is Lucas Kallas’ travels abroad. He and Daniel Vorcaro were in Caracas between November 27 and December 1, 2023, during which a payment of 23 thousand dollars for two hotel suites was recorded, according to electronic messages seized by authorities. Subsequently, Vorcaro began avoiding direct connections with business in the country after the tightening of American sanctions against Venezuela in April 2024, but Kallas continued making trips to the destination, with official flights recorded in June 2024 and January 2025.
The aircraft PP-COA, registered to the company Cedro Air S.A., was used by Kallas on routes to Venezuela and Miami, where he reportedly remained since November 2025, avoiding Brazil due to the progress of Federal Police (PF) investigations. On the other hand, official documents confirm that he had at least seven accesses to the Planalto Palace between 2023 and 2024, despite the meetings not appearing on the public agenda. Among these contacts, meetings with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and some ministers stand out.
Regarding judicial proceedings, inquiries against Kallas related to illegal mineral exploration are underway in the Federal Regional Court of the 6th Region (TRF-6) and the Supreme Federal Court (STF). One of them, under the rapporteurship of minister Dias Toffoli, has been under extreme secrecy since December 2025. Thus, the progress of the investigations remains confidential and under strict monitoring by authorities.
