00:00Fresil's presidential election less than one month off, Fresil's far right mounted an attack
00:04against the Supreme Court Justice who presided over the Jair Bolsonaro conviction this week.
00:10Our correspondent, Brian Mayer, has more.
00:15This week, after presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro was exposed lying about a $1.6 million
00:20gift from jailed Banco Master owner Daniel Vorkaro, Supreme Court Justice Andrei Mendoza,
00:26a Jair Bolsonaro nominee, leaked text messages sent from Vorkaro to another justice, Alexandre de Moraes.
00:34This story pushed Bolsonaro's scandal off the headlines. The next day,
00:38the messages were shown to have been unanswered, and Mendoza got caught up in his own scandal.
00:45Supreme Court Justice Andrei Mendoza is the presiding judge over the Banco Master investigation.
00:50My reporting shows that, before he took on this role,
00:53he held secret conversations and meetings with Daniel Vorkaro.
00:58As Paolo Modarin's story on Mendoza's secret meetings viralized across multiple news platforms,
01:05a new scandal broke. Evidence showed that he'd illegally ordered two federal police officers
01:09to prepare a dossier on Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes,
01:13the target of the Trump administration's Magnitsky sanctions,
01:17who presided over the Jair Bolsonaro trial.
01:21Mendonça didn't request Chief Justice Facken to open an investigation.
01:25He opened his own. This was his big mistake. He transformed himself into a federal police chief.
01:31He ordered them to prepare a report for him, and it is because of this procedural violation
01:36that Attorney General Ghané is declaring it null and void.
01:40With elections only a month off, lawmakers are accusing Mendoza of conflict of interest
01:45and pressuring Supreme Court President Edson Facken to pull him off the Banco Master case.
01:52The issue isn't simply whether Mendoza met with Vorkaro.
01:55The public needs to know if someone who has had this amount of secret interaction
01:59with the jailed banker and his cronies remains qualified to preside over the Banco Master investigation
02:04with the standards of professional impartiality that this function requires.
02:09According to the federal police, Banco Master embezzled over 12 billion reais
02:14from small investors and retirement funds.
02:16Brian Mir, Telusur, Recife.
