Published 14/05/2026 17:33 | Edited 05/14/2026 19:02
The international press has covered the relationship between senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) and banker Daniel Vorcaro, from Banco Master. The audio revealed by the website Intercept Brazil shook Flávio’s pre-campaign for the presidency. His party’s interlocutors are already speculating on the possibility of a replacement at the head of the ticket.
The North American news agency Bloomberg indicates that Flávio’s campaign may be over before it begins: “Leaked audio messages linking Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro to the man at the center of a billion-dollar bank fraud scandal threaten to sink the right-wing senator’s campaign before it even begins.”
In the text, the report indicates that the revelations are the “most explosive” within the broad Banco Master scandal, “a saga that shook the financial sector and inflamed Brazilians’ fury at the elite’s misconduct.”
The newspaper also highlights that the audio “reinforces the direct link between Bolsonaro’s and Vorcaro’s political power structure: last week, the police carried out search and seizure warrants against Senator Ciro Nogueira, who served as chief minister of Jair Bolsonaro’s Civil House, alleging that the influential parliamentarian used his influence to help Vorcaro expand the bank’s business in exchange for kickbacks and bribes.”
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O Clarion highlights in its headline that Flávio asked the arrested banker for money for his father’s film. The Argentine newspaper tells its readers that Banco Master is involved in a “huge corruption scandal”.
O The Nationalso from Argentina, has given considerable repercussion to the topic, showing that the corruption scandal is advancing on the senator, with a crisis of “incalculable proportions” that is already affecting his pre-campaign. According to the newspaper, the connection between the senator and Vorcaro threatens to reconfigure the political scenario on the eve of the election. To top it off, the text also states that Flávio is now potentially in the crosshairs of the judicial system, as well as questioning his discourse on transparency.
The Spanish The World assessed that the damage to Flávio’s candidacy is significant, that the right is in a zone of turbulence and the former first lady, Michelle Bolsonaro, emerges as an alternative to him.
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The British news agency Reuters highlighted that the financial markets were shaken by the senator’s connection with a “disgraced banker”. The agency points out that the dollar rose again and the stock market fell with the revelation. Furthermore, the report goes through Master’s fraudulent history and Flávio’s possible downfall in the electoral dispute, in addition to reminding readers that Jair Bolsonaro is under house arrest after being sentenced to 27 years for conspiring in a coup d’état.
Finally, the agency Associated Press, from the United States, indicates in the headline that Flávio is a pre-candidate and that he denied irregularities in the request for money from Vorcaro. However, the report replicated by The Washington Post highlights the hypocrisy of Flávio, who, hours before the revelation made by the Intercept, He denied to journalists any connection with the banker, having already done so in March, when it was revealed that his name was among the banker’s contacts.
Source: vermelho.org.br