Fund linked to Vorcaro changes redemption rules day before arrest

The Termópilas investment fund, main shareholder of Super Empreendimentos and linked to banker Daniel Vorcaro, held a remote assembly on November 16, 2025, to adjust amortization and redemption rules for resources. The meeting took place one day before Vorcaro's arrest by the Federal Police, amid probes into frauds at Banco Master. No public evidence of actual redemptions exists, but the regulatory change raises questions about financial movements during that time.

The Termópilas investment fund, with net assets of about R$ 934 million in September 2025, is controlled by another investment fund and serves as the main shareholder of Super Empreendimentos e Participações SA, a company with R$ 2.6 billion in share capital. This firm is associated with banker Daniel Vorcaro and his brother-in-law Fabiano Zettel, who was a director until July 2024. Ana Cláudia Queiroz de Paiva, Zettel's partner and Super's director, maintains ties to Vorcaro's businesses, sharing addresses and phone numbers with his companies, according to Federal Revenue data.

The Termópilas assembly took place on November 16, 2025, a Sunday at 3 p.m., remotely, without prior notice since all quotaholders were present. According to the minutes filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM), participants approved "adjustments to the special assembly's competencies regarding full amortization or redemption, as well as approval quorum". This involved reformulations to the fund's regulations, adding details on the quotaholder payment process.

The following night, November 17, news emerged of a purchase offer for Banco Master by Fictor, followed by Vorcaro's arrest and the Central Bank's decision to liquidate the institution. The banker was released 12 days later. Termópilas is part of the Astralo 95 fund's portfolio, with R$ 27 billion in assets as of December 2025, but the asset composition was omitted at the administrator's request, allowed by the CVM for up to 90 days.

Astralo 95 is cited in Central Bank investigations into frauds led by Vorcaro and PCC infiltration in the financial market. Super owns a R$ 36 million house in Brasília, rented by Vorcaro to host politicians like Senator Ciro Nogueira (PP) and Deputy Hugo Motta (Republicanos). In December 2024, the company donated a R$ 4.4 million apartment to a woman involved in a drug trafficking operation.

Reag, administrator of Termópilas and Astralo 95, stated in a note that it "does not interfere in its clients' businesses". Vorcaro's press office, Ana Cláudia, and Zettel did not comment.

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Illustration of a luxurious Brasília mansion bought with diverted Banco Master loan, amid federal police fraud probe.
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Vorcaro used Master bank loan to buy mansion in Brasília

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Daniel Vorcaro, owner of Banco Master, used a diverted loan from the bank to purchase a R$36 million mansion in Brasília's Lago Sul. The acquisition was through a company connected to his brother-in-law, part of a fraud network probed by federal police. Experts highlight irregularities that may breach financial transparency rules.

Fabiano Zettel, brother-in-law of banker Daniel Vorcaro from Banco Master, owns the investment fund that acquired part of the stake held by Supreme Court Justice Dias Toffoli's brothers in the Tayayá resort in Paraná. The deal unfolded amid probes into bank frauds, with Toffoli serving as the case's rapporteur at the STF. Toffoli holds no direct stake in the property.

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The Regional Federal Court of the 1st Region ordered on Friday, November 28, 2025, the release of Daniel Vorcaro, owner of Banco Master, and four other directors, with ankle monitor use and other precautionary measures. Desembargadora Solange Salgado da Silva's decision will be enforced on Saturday, 29. Vorcaro was arrested on November 17 during Operation Compliance Zero, probing frauds of about R$ 12.2 billion in fake credit titles.

Daniel Vorcaro, owner of Banco Master, and Paulo Henrique Costa, former BRB president, underwent a confrontation at the Supreme Federal Court due to contradictions in their statements to the Federal Police. The procedure took place on the night of December 30 and lasted nearly seven hours in total. The Central Bank's director, Ailton de Aquino, was excused from the confrontation.

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Justice Dias Toffoli, rapporteur of the inquiry into the R$12 billion fraud between Banco de Brasília (BRB) and Banco Master, prepared 81 detailed questions for banker Daniel Vorcaro, who was questioned on December 30. The queries examine suspicious transactions, failures in Central Bank oversight, and potential political connections. Toffoli lifted the secrecy of the depositions to progress the probe.

Senate President of the INSS CPMI, Carlos Viana (Podemos-MG), announced the summons of bankers Daniel Vorcaro and Luiz Félix Cardamone Neto for depositions on February 5. The hearings are part of investigations into frauds in payroll loans to INSS retirees. The commission is also seeking to overturn a habeas corpus to hear Maurício Camisoti.

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In the latest development of the money laundering probe into a Pilar mansion linked to AFA treasurer Pablo Toviggino—previously highlighted by an ARCA report on his alleged frontmen's asset surge—the case entered secret proceedings on December 24. Judge Marcelo Aguinsky approved the measure at prosecutor Claudio Navas Rial's request and following a Civic Coalition complaint. The alleged frontmen plan to claim amnesty program funds funded the purchase.

 

 

 

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